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Hardcover:
9780312852153 | Tor Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Four astronauts journey to a cold planet only thirty degrees above absolute zero and inhabited by tiny aliens who have created a complex civilization
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9780812516470 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, August 1, 1996), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Four astronauts journey to a cold planet only thirty degrees above absolute zero and inhabited by tiny aliens who have created a complex civilization
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9780345286468, titled "Dragon's Egg" | Ballantine Books, April 1, 1980, cover price $9.95 | also contains Child of the Mersey | About this edition: On a neutron star, the cheela, a form of intelligent life whose hour equals more than one hundred human years, struggle to progress from the beginnings of agriculture to the discovery of science
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9780345316660, titled "Dragon's Egg" | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: On a neutron star, the cheela, a form of intelligent life whose hour equals more than one hundred human years, struggle to progress from the beginnings of agriculture to the discovery of science
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9780345388988, titled "Dragon's Egg/Starquake" | Reissue edition (Del Rey, August 1, 1994), cover price $5.50 | also contains Bio-Inspired Cyber Security and Cloud Systems: Trends and Innovations | About this edition: Only the cheela can survive on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star with surface gravity sixty-seven billion times that of earth's--but when a monstrous starquake strikes, human astronauts must abandon them or die saving the cheela from extinction.
Hardcover:
9780671499396 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1984, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The first manned mission to another star brings the discovery of alien intelligences and a new world
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9780671559373 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, January 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: The first manned mission to another star brings the discovery of alien intelligences and a new world
9780671499440, titled "The Flight of the Dragonfly" | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1984, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The first manned mission to another star brings the discovery of alien intelligences and a new world
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9780671876869 | Baen Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: An intergalactic adventure applies all the theories of modern technology--including antigravity machines, space warps, black holes, time machines, and reactionless drives--and presents fictionalized scenarios depicting their impact
Armed with millions of years worth of technological innovations, the scientists embark on their mission to Barnard's Star and Rochenworld. Original.
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9780595166206 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $22.95
9780671721800 | Baen Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Armed with millions of years worth of technological innovations, the scientists embark on their mission to Barnard's Star and Rochenworld.
Product Description: Mars starts out as a battlefield, but soon both armies find themselves united against a charismatic dictator of all Earth, who is demanding that they return or be destroyed. Their only hope is to turn Mars into a new home, which they do, with the aid of some ancient caretakers of the planet...read more
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9780345347121 | Del Rey, June 1, 1991, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Interplanetary war threatens as the power and ambition of Infinite Lord and President of the Unified States General Alexander Armstrong, the heroic victor of the battle for Mars, grows out of control
Paperback:
9780595167463 | Backinprint.Com, March 1, 2001, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Mars starts out as a battlefield, but soon both armies find themselves united against a charismatic dictator of all Earth, who is demanding that they return or be destroyed.
9780345377722 | Reprint edition (Del Rey, July 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | also contains Creative Writing Scrapbook: Junior Storybaker 2. Grades 2-4 | About this edition: Welcomed as a hero after he successfully defeats Mars's Russian invaders, General Alexander Armstrong lets the adoration turn him into a power-hungry demagogue, and it is up to his twin brother, Gus, now Governor of Mars, to stop him.
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9780595198177 | Backinprint.Com, September 1, 2001, cover price $18.95
9780471628125 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The authors explore the history of antimatter--more accurately known as mirror matter--including the projects and powerful machines that discovered the positions, antiprotons, and antineutrons that comprise mirror matter
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9780595166213 | Signed edition (Backinprint.Com, February 1, 2001), cover price $25.95
9780671876005 | Baen Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Humans and the giant, big-brained, lovable amoebae of Rocheworld explore the oceans and geysers of Zulu and unwittingly threaten the food supply of Zulu's native species.
Product Description: Rescued From Paradise is the fourth of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (Baen Books, New York, 1990). The other sequels are: Return to Rocheworld, Ocean Under the Ice and Marooned on Eden. In Rescued From Paradise , the children of the human explorers marooned decades ago on the Earth-like moon, "Eden," in the Barnard Star System, have to decide whether to stay on their idyllic birthplace with the friendly jelly-blob "flouwen" and the slow-moving tree-like "jollys", or to return to compete in the fast-paced combined human/robot civilization of the Solar System...read more
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9780595166183 | Iuniverse Inc, January 1, 2001, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Rescued From Paradise is the fourth of four sequels to the science fiction novel Rocheworld by Robert L.
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9780671876555 | Baen Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When an expedition of humans is sent to Rocheworld to bring all humans there back to their native planet, problems ensue when the Rocheworld humans refuse to leave their new home
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9780595166169 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $18.95
9780671721534 | Baen Books, February 1, 1993, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Teamed up against a second aquatic race, the flouwen--the water-dwelling creatures found on a bizarre double planet--and an expedition of humans find that these new creatures are as unfriendly as they are intelligent
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9780671698690 | Reprint edition (Baen Books, April 1, 1990), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The first manned mission to another star brings the discovery of alien intelligences and a new world
Hardcover:
9780312863210 | Tor Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A ship becomes stranded on a huge flying creature that lives in the Saturnian skies, where five intrepid humans are attempting to find a way to convert Saturn's atmospheric chemicals into cheap fuel for interplanetary travel
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9780812534580 | Tor Science Fiction, April 1, 1998, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A ship becomes stranded on a huge flying creature that lives in the Saturnian skies, where five intrepid humans are attempting to find a way to convert Saturn's atmospheric chemicals into cheap fuel for interplanetary travel
9780312856175 | Tor Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $23.95
Product Description: Starquake, the sequel to Dragons Egg, takes place on the surface of a neutron star. The gravity is 67 billion Earth gravities. The native cheela, the size of sesame seeds, live a million times faster than their human friends in orbit...read more
Hardcover:
9780345312327 | Ballantine Books, October 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Disaster destroys most of the Cheela, a race of intelligent aliens who live on the surface of a neutron star, and it is up to the human explorers who discovered them to help save the survivors
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9780595167487 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Starquake, the sequel to Dragons Egg, takes place on the surface of a neutron star.
9780345312334 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1986), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Disaster destroys most of the Cheela, a race of intelligent aliens who live on the surface of a neutron star, and it is up to the human explorers who discovered them to help save the survivors
Product Description: Read the tale of Randy Hunter, billionaire industrialist, who communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight and explores far-flung worlds in a future filled with technological wonders. The future physics is mind-boggling but firmly grounded in the science of today, and the action never stops...read more
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9780312852146 | Tor Books, June 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Randy Hunter, a billionaire industrialist, communicates with aliens, develops interstellar flight, explores other worlds, and becomes immortal in a world where human dreams come true
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9780595197590 | Iuniverse Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Read the tale of Randy Hunter, billionaire industrialist, who communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight and explores far-flung worlds in a future filled with technological wonders.
9780812516449 | Reprint edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, March 1, 1993), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Billionaire industrialist Randy Hunter communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight, and explores the universe in a novel that explores the technological possibilities of the future.
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