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For those of you out there into sci-fi and who love a good other worldly novel...you may enjoy this book. Back reads: "Men could never live on such a star; only by the most advanced technology can humans exist in synchronous orbit to observe it. The sirface gravity is an incredible sixty-seven billion times that of Earth, with matter so compressed that the mass of a normal star is packed into a crusted sphere only twenty kilometers in diameter. A magnic field 2 trillion times that of Earth distorts the nuclei in the crust and out normal chemical reactions are replaced by neutron reactions. Yet on this impossible world, men detect intellegent life- the cheela, who live so fast the one of our hours is like 100 years in a human life. And as we follow the cheela, they struggle from savagery thru the beginings of agriculture and to the discovery of science. In this moving story we watch them establish contect with the humans orbiting above them. And for a time, men are their teachers. For a brief time...."
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