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cheelaon My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before

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

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

cheelaon Can life emerge around a white dwarf?

For reference, https://mdpub.github.io/cheela

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

cheelaon When a black hole and a neutron star merge

You’ll feel the tides, however.

cheelaon Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts

For a realistic scifi usage of gravity as dramatic plot device, see Starquake by Robert L. Forward[0]

https://mdpub.github.io/cheela

cheelaon MdBook – A command line tool to create books with Markdown

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

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