Dragon's Egg
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780450051975 (0450051978)
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 1991)I just got around to reading DRAGON'S EGG. It is probably one of the best hard science fiction novels I've ever read. I thought the human characterization was weak in places (not enough introspection, lack of diversity of characters), but clearly Bob knows about the scientific...
Five stars, Dragon’s Egg by Robert Forward Dragon's Egg) so much fun? A plucky researcher follows her hunch and discovers the neutron star passing near the Solar System. Mankind launches a mission (with the plucky researcher’s son as the mission commander) to study the star and discovers an intelli...
I admit to a science fiction reader shortcoming: I love to watch science fiction, but usually don't care to read it, especially the sub-genre of 'hard science fiction.' And to be completely honest, I thought I gave myself a migraine reading the first pages of Dragon's Egg (an astrophysics crash co...
I read this book probably 20 years ago (funny how I keep remembering books I read a long time ago as I try to catalog them all on Goodreads). I can't say I remember the plot in detail, but it was a really fascinating hard SF novel about intelligent life forms who live on the surface of a star. They ...
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