The Mote in God's Eye

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Pocket Books, 1975 - Fiction - 560 pages
In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
25
Section 3
32
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About the author (1975)

Larry Niven received his B.A. in mathematics in 1962. His first novel, World of Ptavvs (1966), was a success and launched his career. Niven has won five Hugos and one Nebula award, testimony that his colleagues in the science fiction world respect his work. Perhaps Niven's most well-known creation is Ringworld, a distant planet that may be taken as a metaphor for Earth, as it was once great but has since fallen into decay.

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TitleThe Mote in God's Eye
Pocket books
AuthorsLarry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Editionreprint
PublisherPocket Books, 1975
ISBN0671801074, 9780671801076
Length560 pages
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