Ask HN: What was the name of this Sci-Fi book?

Posted by meridion on Friday July 20, 2018 @09:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.

In a discussion around 2 months ago in HN, related to alien life, there was a reference to a book. The book was about humans visiting an alien world, but humans and aliens moved at different speeds so they had challenges communicating. Sadly it is all I remember, but sounded like an interesting concept. Any idea which book this might have been?

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Re:Ask HN: What was the name of this Sci-Fi book? by HarryHirsch on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:01PM (#17580340)

Are you thinking about Robert Forward's "Dragon's Egg"? The aliens live on the surface of a neutron star passing through the Solar System, and the "chemistry" on the surface of the neutron star is much faster than our chemistry, consequently the aliens' society evolves much quicker.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the name of this Sci-Fi book? by meridion on Saturday July 21, 2018 @10:29AM (#17582101)

Thank you, that was the one!

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Re:Ask HN: What was the name of this Sci-Fi book? by mindcrime on Friday July 20, 2018 @09:35PM (#17580259)

Could you be thinking of this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17392748

("The Dark Forest" by Liu Cixin)

or maybe this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17391451

("Aurora" by Kim Stanley Robinson)

If not, I'd poke around some more looking for the reference in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17389842

or maybe this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302924

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