[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>>> >...I recall a sci-fi story where intelligent life was discovered on a
>> neutron star...
>
> This could be Stephen Baxter's FLUX (which I haven't read). Baxter knows a
> thing or two about science.

No - it was Dragon's Egg and Starquake, by Robert Forward, and it did indeed
involve a neutron star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starquake_%28book%29