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They can also have 'seas' of hydrogen pulled off a partner star if they're in a binary system. The resulting occasional thermonuclear explosions might make it a

• jerf 8y ago
  The novel occurs on a free-roaming neutron star that has stabilized enough due to its isolation to permit life. Along with the open question of whether "nuclear chemistry" is possible, it would certainly be an open question as to whether it is truly possible for a neutron star to ever stabilize enough for life. I don't think it's much of a spoiler since it's right in the title... the second one, Starquake, centers around a neutron-star quake that happens to the Cheela civilization. Neutron star quakes are so devastating that the human ships and the humans are quite badly shaken up, merely being in orbit around a neutron quake. (Imagine satellites being destroyed because of a quake on Earth. We're very low mass, we don't think of things like that. Though I'm sure we can tell the differences in some trajectories from quakes and seaslides.)