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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A very dull sequel with endless battle scenes and many pointless discussions of "Motie" culture and behavior. Lacks the entertaining, reactionary derangement of Niven & Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer. ( )Let me start by stating I am a huge fan of "The Mote in God's Eye." I have re-read it many times. Maybe that is why I find this book so disappointing. I've started this book three times and each time I have put it down out of boredom and plain disinterest. This is the follow on to The Mote in God's Eye, a science fiction classic. As such, it completes the story, but doesn't add as much to is as you'd like. Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/067... The reader here is thrown into the deep end, sociologically. The conflicts both in Motie society and the spooks and political opponents in human society will easily lead to confusion for many readers, me included, to start with. The Motie blockade has been going on for well over a decade, and the guard is getting lax, and some realise a breakout is probably inevitable. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/01... no reviews | add a review
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There, 25 years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered-- a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function. Master, Mediator, Engineer. Warrior. Each supremely adapted to its task, yet doomed by millions of years of evolution to an inescapable fate. For the Moties must breed-- or die.
And now the fragile wall separating them and the galaxy beyond is beginning to crumble.
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