A good science fiction book about an intelligent alien race that evolved on the surface of a neutron star, written by a physicist:
My favorite “people” from the series, second only to the Roman Catholic eusocial human hives of course.
Truly the largest series I’ve ever read in scope, if you can make it past the terribad writing & characterization in the first books (and you will, the ideas are worth it) it quickly gets better.
We know that time passes slower in stronger gravitational fields. A neutron star has an enormously strong gravitational field near its surface, so time should move much slower there, not much faster... but in the book it's the other way around. (According to the synopsis.)
Am I missing something?
Warning: Link is [probably] a spoiler if you're thinking of reading the book