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Originally Posted by bfisher
Yes, the cheela develop a space-faring civilization on the surface of a neutron star - the pace of development of their civilization is visible to human observers - until the cheela civilization's development zooms past human civilization's development.
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Yep, and that's just in the 1st of the two books. I think it's interesting how the neutron star influences human development and then the humans influence the development of the Cheela in turn. The idea of different rates of time between people on a planet and people in orbit was used in one of the later episodes of Star Trek Voyager. I couldn't help but think who ever wrote the episode must have read some of Robert L. Forward's books. It used a planet rather than a star, but otherwise many elements of the story were similar.