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Dragons’s Egg [1] is a great sci-fi novel that explores this concept in the other direction. Humans are the slow ones and the Aliens are creatures living on th
by chairmanwow1 6y ago
Dragons’s Egg [1] is a great sci-fi novel that explores this concept in the other direction.
Humans are the slow ones and the Aliens are creatures living on the surface of a neutron star. Humanity makes contact and generations of the aliens live, die, and develop technology over the course of several subjective days for the humans.
Highly recommend giving it a read~
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263466 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263466
- graderjs 6y agoThanks, I'll check it out! :) ;p xx
- ghaff 6y agoThere's a ST:TNG episode in a similar vein, Blink of an Eye, although this involves different techobabble (tachyon field).
- T-hawk 6y agoMinor nitpick, that episode is Voyager, not Next Generation. And it was directly inspired by Dragon's Egg.
- ghaff 6y agoOops. You're right. I remembered it as TNG and didn't notice when I looked up the episode name. Wikipedia says "believed to be inspired by" but it would surprise me quite a bit if it weren't. I didn't love Voyager overall but it had some pretty good episodes scattered throughout.
- graderjs 6y agoI'm watching this episode now and it's great! Thank god for Netflix and all the Star Treks on it. :) ;p xx
- drdrey 6y agoTime Trap is a campy sci-fi movie that explores a similar concept, teenagers get trapped in a cave where time elapses differently. Not highly recommended, but it’s good fun.