Dragon's Egg story

novel: Dragon's Egg (1980) · 1980 · Robert L. Forward

Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures the size of a sesame seed who live, think and develop a million times faster than humans.

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ThemeLevelMotivation
speculative rise of civilization choice The Cheela developed from an agricultural people into a technologically advanced one in the blink of an eye.
time passing at different rates for different people choice Time passed a million times faster for the Cheela than it did for their human observers.