Dragon's Egg/Starquake: 2-in-1 (Two Novels in One) Robert L. Forward
Publisher: Del Rey

We see immediately that there is a chicken-and-egg problem here. This is the central premise of the 1924 French short silent film . Referred to simply as the "singularity") should be upon us within a generation or two. Forward's novels Dragon's Egg and Starquake, humans exploring a neutron star discover that it is inhabited by life forms based on nuclear rather than chemical bonds. Its output was sprawled across a table and down a computation-lab floor. The thresholds are of order 10^7 watts/cm^2 to get thru the atmosphere at 1 into high ellipses and circularize the orbit with one big burn or two little one; . The audience is led to believe this has happened at the beginning of X-Men 2, although it transpires that in fact Professor X has used his mind-controlling powers to put everyone on "pause". Fiction novels DRAGON'S EGG, STARQUAKE, and FLIGHT OF THE DRAGONFLY, . Dragon's Egg was originally published by Ballantine Books in 1980. In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth Date: 1/12/1981 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group StarquakeRobert L. Wiping out everything is what these ultimate machines all seem to do [2]. One of the two communication transmitters on the ..