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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.
The long-awaited sequel to the landmark novel The Mote in God's Eye. A quarter century after humanity quarantined the aliens known as the Moties within the confines of their own solar system, the wall between them and the galaxy beyond is beginning to crumble. "Worth waiting eighteen years for!"--Tom Clancy.
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Michael Mason
reviewed The Gripping Hand (Mote Series #2) on November 30, 2011
The Gripping Hand (Mote Series #2)
This is the sequel to The Mote in God's Eye, and everything that made the original book remarkable is missing, while everything that bothered me about it is back with a force. What made the original so compelling was the central mystery around the true nature of the aliens with whom the protagonists make first contact -- I can't talk about that without spoiling the first book to readers unfamiliar with it. There's very little of that sort of driving enigma present in The Gripping Hand. The novel takes the conclusion from the first book and follows it logically, ploddingly, through several hundred pages of military, political, and economic maneuvering. I was not much entertained, and didn't learn much of anything new about the aliens or humanity. The plot also feels padded by a couple pretty unrelated vignettes that don't seem like they belong -- this might be some sort of discord between the two authors showing through.
If you read The Mote in God's Eye and liked it, maybe leave it at that.
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