Dragon's egg

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1. kirubakaranJul 2026
   For the opposite, "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward is a fantastic read
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2. aeriqueMar 2026
   If you liked that and you haven't read it yet, give "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward a read.
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3. pwatsonwailesJan 2026
   Blindsight by Peter Watts

   Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

   Startide Rising by David Brin

   A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

   The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks

   Semiosis by Sue Burke

   Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

   Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward

   Solaris by Stanisław Lem

   The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

   The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

   Translation State by Ann Leckie

   Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

   The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

   House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

   This is what sprang to mind as answering that sort of brief off the top of my head.

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4. LeifCarrotsonOct 2025
   That's "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward, a classic Sci-fi story:

   https://annas-archive.org/md5/4c381ac344506d10037fc8e7747098...

   The cheela lived on the surface of a neutron star, and they lived faster because the nuclear physics that powered their metabolism are far faster than the chemical and mechanical physics that power our own.

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5. cheelaOct 2025
   Robert L. Forward's Dragon's Egg and Starquake:

   https://mdpub.github.io/cheela/

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6. FrotagOct 2025
   I usually care more about the ideas than characters / prose and the recs below kinda reflect that.

   Anyways, in no particular order ...

     - Adiamante by Modesitt (1996), pacifist environmentalists vs cyberpunk warmongers. It's a lot of philosophy and a bit preachy at that but the world building was pretty thorough.
     - Last and First Idol by Gengen Kusano (2018). Similar to Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, it parodies various aspects of Japanese culture over a period of eons. (It's a set of three ~70pg stories).
     - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky (2010). Parody where the main character investigates how to exploit magic. Kind of like xkcd / what-if but in the Harry Potter universe. Author is controversial and the story's pompous /r/iamverysmart vibes can be offputting but I enjoyed it.
   

   Also want to second some of the other recs in this thread.

     - Greg Egan's stuff
     - There is No Antimimetics Division by qntm
     - Sequels to Enders Game and the Ender's Shadow spinoffs by Orson Scott Card.
     - Dragon's Egg and its sequel by Robert L. Forward.

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