Dragon's EggBy: Robert L. Forward In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mindand this is one of them.Arthur C. Clarke In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeformsthe cheelaliving on Dragons Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time,