Robert L. Forward

Dragon's Egg (2000)

This was a fascinating piece of hard-SF, featuring some of the most scientifically exotic alien life I've encountered so far. It manages to lay out an engaging neutron star world, usually by showing rather than telling in a tour de force of world building. Even when it describes high physics, it ...

Saturn Rukh (1998)

If there were a science-fiction university, Robert L. Forward would be the dean of the Xenobiology Department. As he deals with alien beings in a heavy gravity environment for Dragon’s Egg, he now deals in Saturn Rukh with creatures that float through gaseous clouds in the same way that whales an...

Starquake (2000)