Also deconstructs the trope, since the interaction is nothing like how believers in ancient astronauts think it happened on Earth. By the time we actually make contact, the Cheela have developed rudimentary chemistry. The arrival of the human spacecraft is so slow from their standpoint they worship it as a god.
While it's not explicitly stated, it's easy to surmise that, in the neutron star's extreme gravity, a technology where some part - such as an axle - needs to be lifted off the ground is not practical. Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: Wheels are never mentioned in the book: the Cheela use sleighs.The nearest to this is the booking system in supercomputers and clusters, only the little difference that is no money involved, or Amazon's EC2. The idea of any computer time being a valuable resource you have to pay for time on in the year 2020 (as is the case at the discovery of the neutron star) is kind of funny in retrospect. There's not a lot of tech development, really - there are no personal computers and no internet.
20 Minutes into the Future: The first human time is the year 2020 in a book written in 1980.Notable as a hard science fiction story in that the science tends to be the focus. It was followed in 1989 by a sequel, Starquake, which picks up exactly where Dragon's Egg leaves off. note So nicknamed because it's near the tail of the Draco constellation Both races live at a different time frame - twenty-nine seconds for a human is the rough equivalent of a year for a Cheela. It is a first contact story about humans meeting the Cheela, a race of beings who live on the surface of a neutron star - the Dragon's Egg from the title. Dragon's Egg is a 1980 hard science fiction novel by Robert L.
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