robert l forward

Dragon’s Egg is hard SF for serious connoisseurs of hard SF, including a series of appendices at the back that go into considerably more detail about the physics and ‘biology’ of life on the surface of a neutron star, complete with scientific references! Not sure if I would recommend reading...

Trying to remember the title of a novel where humans send an expedition to Pluto/Charon/some frigid outer planet/dwarf planet. There is life there but because it is so cold, the humans use super cooled robots to interact with them so we don't melt them. At the end, as part of their...

trying to locate a book I read years ago. Cannot remember the title or author. But I remember the premise being a group of scientist/astronauts are on a frozen planet (?) inhabited with smaller bug like aliens. I believe they had to use small robots built to look like them that they communicated...

I am searching to no avail for a book I once read. Human beings visit an ice world with insect like creatures that have a sort of medieval kind of society. They interact with them using little robots. They also have very strict sexual taboos. In the end they erupt in to an orgy which causes...

Can't remember title. Space ship goes to another planet, stays in orbit. Planet has very high gravity. Life on planet is very small due to H gravity, and has very short (by human perspective) life span, so many generations happen over the human time of just hours or days. Aliens advance from...

This was book...possibly a short in compilation of stories...read it in the mid to late 80's but I think the story is older. From what I recall; A project on a spaceship has created a new form of life, very small and very short lifespan, but intelligent. The ship is suffering from some type of...

Hi there I would really like to find the name of a book and author that I enjoyed reading in the 80's or early nineties. As I remember it the storyline goes something like this:- It is present day, a comet (or asteroid) is passing earth. The comet is detected by radar on earth and appears...

Greetings all, I'm searching for a book about small creatures on another planet with very short lives that must quickly pass on their knowledge to the next generation because their life spans are so short. At some point in the story these creatures come in contact with human space explorers and...

I've been looking all over Google, Wikipedia, and numerous other sites to no avail in this search. Now Google has directed me here, and I'm hoping one of you can help. I remember reading a good book in high school (1996-2001) but I can't remember the name or author. The book was largely about...

Hi All, Sorry for another help me find it request, but I've trying to locate the title of a novel a read years ago and haven't been able to locate it. I'm hoping some here will recognize my description. As I remember it (probably wrong, but here it goes) -Story about earth communicating with...