I highly recommend Dragon's Egg, a hard sci fi novel by Robert L. Forward, as well as its sequel, Starquake, for anyone wanting to expand their mind with a fasc

I highly recommend Dragon's Egg, a hard sci fi novel by Robert L. Forward, as well as its sequel, Starquake, for anyone wanting to expand their mind with a fascinating portrayal of neutron star physics, dealing with the hypothetical possibility of life on their surfaces. The relative physical scales of time, space, velocities and forces are mind-boggling compared to our normal intuition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg