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compare Forward, Dragon's Egg (1980)

• cheela 2y ago
  For reference, https://mdpub.github.io/cheela https://mdpub.github.io/cheela
  • 082349872349872 2y ago
    while we're at it*, RLF82: "Flattening spacetime near the Earth": https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.26.735 https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.26.73... * (and I am admiring the specificity of that HN acct)
• thechao 2y ago
  Or, more directly, Niven’s “The Smoke Ring” about humans living directly in an oxygenated accretion disk around a white dwarf.
• ossopite 2y ago
  I think you wrote compare forward as a long version of cf., but I believe cf. is actually short for the latin confer
  • 082349872349872 2y ago
    Forward is the author :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward#Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward#Fiction note wrt to comment elsewhere in this thread that Forward was also involved with physical aspects of the Integral Trees/Smoke Ring world build.