Robert L. Forward

On a neutron star, the cheela, a form of intelligent life whose hour equals more than one hundred human years, struggle to progress from the beginnings of agriculture to the discovery of science. Reprint.

Dragon's Egg

Starquake, the sequel to Dragon’s Egg, takes place on the surface of a neutron star. The gravity is 67 billion Earth gravities. The native “cheela”, the size of sesame seeds, live a million times faster than their human friends in orbit. After a starquake, the humans have only one day to save the remains of cheela civilization from extinction.

Starquake

2-in-1 (Two Novels in One)

Dragon's Egg/Starquake

Martha Dodson Forward

Marooned on Eden is the third of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels are: Return to Rocheworld, Ocean Under the Ice and Rescued From Paradise. In Marooned on Eden, the human explorers of the Barnard Star System, along with their jelly-blob alien friends, the “flouwen”, explore the moons of the gas-giant planet, Gargantua. They find an Earth-like moon and use their rocket landers to explore it further. The rocket crashes and they find themselves marooned for the rest of their lives on a veritable Eden.

Marooned on Eden

Four astronauts journey to a cold planet only thirty degrees above absolute zero and inhabited by tiny aliens who have created a complex civilization.

Camelot 30K

An intergalactic adventure applies all the theories of modern technology--including antigravity machines, space warps, black holes, time machines, and reactionless drives--and presents fictionalized scenarios depicting their impact

Indistinguishable from Magic

Las sondas espaciales humanas han descubierto vida inteligente en los lejanos límites del sistema solar, en la Nube Oort. Ahora los primeros seres humanos se aventuran más allá del sistema planetario, enviados para establecer contacto con esta raza increíblemente extraña y viajar al centro de su civilización. Lo que descubren es explosivo más allá de sus más descabellados sueños.

The Owl

Mars starts out as a battlefield, but soon both armies find themselves united against a charismatic dictator of all Earth, who is demanding that they return or be destroyed. Their only hope is to turn Mars into a new home, which they do, with the aid of some ancient “caretakers” of the planet.

Martian Rainbow

Welcomed as a hero after he successfully defeats Mars's Russian invaders, General Alexander Armstrong lets the adoration turn him into a power-hungry demagogue, and it is up to his twin brother, Gus, now Governor of Mars, to stop him. Reprint.

Science-fiction-Roman ; [Leben auf einem Neutronenstern]

Das Drachenei

Was, wenn wir nicht allein sind? Im Jahr 500.000 vor Christus entstand in den Weiten unserer Galaxis ein Neutronenstern. Im Jahr 2050 bricht ein Expeditionsteam auf, um diesen Neutronenstern, genannt das Drachenei, zu erforschen, und macht eine unglaubliche Entdeckung: Auf dem Drachenei, dem vermutlich unwirtlichsten Ort im ganzen Universum, existiert Leben! Doch für die Cheela, die Bewohner des Dracheneis, vergeht die Zeit unendlich viel schneller als für die Menschen und so wird das Expeditionsteam Zeuge, wie eine fremdartige Spezies die Entwicklung von der Steinzeit bis zur Hochtechnologie durchläuft – und das alles an einem Tag!

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