My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before 9 months ago
Robert L. Forward's Dragon's Egg and Starquake:
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Robert L. Forward's Dragon's Egg and Starquake:
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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.
You’ll feel the tides, however.
For a realistic scifi usage of gravity as dramatic plot device, see Starquake by Robert L. Forward[0]
It’s also surprisingly nice for things other than documentation, such as personal notes or journals. Or even novels: