A review by rick2
Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
4.0
This is a great example of a wonderfully brilliant idea based piece of sci-fi idea writing. The author introduces us to the Cheela, an alien species that make their home on a super dense neutron star hurtling past the Solar System. Because of this they live at several thousand times the speed of humans.
But like much good idea based sci-fi, The characters and dialogue gets a bit chunky and the actions of those characters become a bit unbelievable at times. Such as when the alien species, at the end of everything, sends a lightly encrypted bit of scientific research saying “this is password protected by the formula you need to solve this scientific concept.” And the person receiving the information thinks “oh geez, that’s so nice. We will definitely not attempt to break that 16bit cypher, because we have lots of integrity as a species and no one would unscrupulously take financially and reputationally valuable information like that”
Funny how in a book about alien amoebas living on neutron star that was the most unbelievable part.
But like much good idea based sci-fi, The characters and dialogue gets a bit chunky and the actions of those characters become a bit unbelievable at times. Such as when the alien species, at the end of everything, sends a lightly encrypted bit of scientific research saying “this is password protected by the formula you need to solve this scientific concept.” And the person receiving the information thinks “oh geez, that’s so nice. We will definitely not attempt to break that 16bit cypher, because we have lots of integrity as a species and no one would unscrupulously take financially and reputationally valuable information like that”
Funny how in a book about alien amoebas living on neutron star that was the most unbelievable part.