YMMV / Dragon's Egg

• Sequelitis: The sequel Starquake is usually ignored, both for its much bleaker tone that quickly causes a Happy Ending Override before the book is even a quarter done, in which the cheela are forced back into the Dark Ages for several millennia of subjective time, while the humans and offworlders can only look on helplessly, but also because of science marching on in a bad way: we now know that starquakes are accompanied by massive gamma ray bursts that would sterilize any planet too close, so realistically, all the humans and the offworld cheela should have died. Most discussions of this series, both on and off this wiki, completely ignore the events of the sequel.

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