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Cheela: Book #1
Narrator
Todd McLaren
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Length
11 hours 47 minutes
Language
English
In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms—the cheela—living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers.
Robert L. Forward (d. 2002) was a physicist, an inventor, and the author of eleven science fiction novels. He founded Forward Unlimited, a consultant firm specializing in exotic physics and advanced space propulsion, and cofounded the aerospace company Tethers Unlimited with Dr. Robert P. Hoyt.
Todd McLaren was involved in radio for more than twenty years in cities on both coasts, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voice-overs, where he has been heard on more than 5,000 TV and radio commercials, as well as TV promos; narrations for documentaries on such networks as A&E, Discovery, and the History Channel; and films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?