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  • (Tears) Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

    From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, April 19, 2026 12:54:55
    Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement

    A stalwart trader sets out to recover a lost probe on behalf of
    feeble space giants.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/fair-trade
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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, April 19, 2026 22:23:29
    That?s the one where humans discover an alien species living on the
    surface of a neutron star, somehow managing to stay on their feet
    under 100,000 ? Earth gravity. (They were small and had a lot of legs,
    as I recall.)

    I remember the description of what happened when they dropped
    something: it fell so fast that they never saw it actually fall: it
    simply disappeared and instantaneously reappeared on the ground.
    Completely flattened, of course.

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  • From James Nicoll@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, April 19, 2026 23:52:46
    In article <10s3kl1$aab5$4@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    That?s the one where humans discover an alien species living on the
    surface of a neutron star, somehow managing to stay on their feet
    under 100,000 ? Earth gravity. (They were small and had a lot of legs,
    as I recall.)

    You may be thinking of Forward's Dragon's Egg.

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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 20, 2026 00:50:29
    On Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:52:46 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:

    You may be thinking of Forward's Dragon's Egg.

    I may indeed ...

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  • From Cryptoengineer@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, April 19, 2026 21:02:16
    On 4/19/2026 7:52 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
    In article <10s3kl1$aab5$4@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D˜Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    Thatƒ??s the one where humans discover an alien species living on the
    surface of a neutron star, somehow managing to stay on their feet
    under 100,000 ?? Earth gravity. (They were small and had a lot of legs,
    as I recall.)

    You may be thinking of Forward's Dragon's Egg.


    Definitely Dragon's Egg. The natives in that book were made from
    degenerate matter, and had about the same mass as a
    human, but compressed to about a tenth of a cubic
    centimeter.

    The falling object scene does occur in MoG - in the
    high-gravity zone.

    Dragon's Egg was in some way a homage to Mission of Gravity.


    pt

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