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Dragon's Egg  Dragon's Egg (1980) [Novel] by Robert L. Forward
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(From the publisher):  Men could never live on such a star; only
by the most advanced technology can humans exist in synchronous
orbit to observe it. The surface gravity is an incredible sixty-
seven billion times that of Warth, with matter so compressed
that the mass of a normal star is packed into a crusted sphere
only twenty kilometers in diameter. A magnetic field of two
trillion times that of Earth distorts the nuclei in the crust,
and our normal chemical reactions are replaced by neutron
reactions.  Yeet on that impossible world, men detect
intelligent life—the cheela, who live so fast that one of our
hours is the equivalent to them of more than a hundred years of
human life. And we follow those cheela as they struggle from
savagery to the discovery of scien