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Loading... The Gripping Handby Larry Niven
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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. (  )GlavoRoma | Jun 30, 2008 |   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. (  )Karlstar | Jun 5, 2008 | Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/067... khms | Oct 29, 2007 |  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... (  )bluetyson | Sep 3, 2007 | 0.050 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0671795732, Hardcover)Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." The San Francisco Chronicle declared that "as science fiction, The Mote in God's Eye is one of the most important novels ever published." Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award winning authors of such bestsellers as Footfall and The Legacy of Heorot, return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler.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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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