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Star dragon / Mike Brotherton

A research mission travels to the SS Cygni system to capture a sentient life form inhabiting a star's accretion disk. The crew faces the physical dangers of the star and the isolation of a voyage that spans five hundred years of Earth time due to time dilation.
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