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Robert L. Forward's Dragon's Egg and Starquake:

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

Re:Can Life Emerge Around a White Dwarf? on Saturday December 07, 2024 @06:40AM (#42349107)
Re:Why Is the Speed of Light So Fast? (Part 1) on Friday October 04, 2024 @07:34PM (#41746468)
In Dragons’s Egg[0] by Robert L. Forward the neutron star alien race are nucleonics life forms which experience timescales a million times faster than humans.

[0] http://mdpub.github.io/cheela

Re:When a black hole and a neutron star merge on Monday April 08, 2024 @08:51AM (#39969177)
You’ll feel the tides, however.
For a realistic scifi usage of gravity as dramatic plot device, see Starquake by Robert L. Forward[0]

https://mdpub.github.io/cheela

It’s also surprisingly nice for things other than documentation, such as personal notes or journals. Or even novels:

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