Dragon's Egg

"I don't have time to draw an egg. I've got to work on this font!"

Showing Draco as an eastern dragon is somewhat original, at least.

"A powerful mismatch between illustrated dragon and blurb, this book cover will stretch the mind!"

>2 AndreasJ: Eggsoticism.

I had this exact edition.

Good book, but oh that font.

It is kinda representative of the locale (check the star chart) but Draco's face is goofy, and if it doesn't have wings, is it even a dragon by modern standards? A Loathly Worm?

>5 GSSex-noob: maybe no wings means the dragon is Chinese?

I’ve heard of “pay it forward.” Now I’ve heard of Rob Forward.

>6 absurdeist: Yes, I could see it walking in a parade.

But nobody would buy an American book called "Tianlong's Egg".

>7 TorMented: Robert Lull Forward was a physicist as well as an SF author. Ph.D. University of Maryland 1965; his dissertation was titled "Detectors for Dynamic Gravitational Fields". Inventor of the Forward Mass Detector (rotating cruciform gravity detector), used for mapping the Moon's mascons. He described "Dragon's Egg" as "a textbook on neutron star physics disguised as a novel."

>9 Hammy_JLK: Now that you mention it, I think I saw him on panels at the Mascons.

You might say there was a Lull in the discussions.

>10 TorMented: It would make sense, in both senses!

>9 Hammy_JLK: He spoke truly -- but it's a book that kept my attention anyway. I read it twice and enjoyed it both times.