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Summary: In short-Extremely good is an understatement
Review: There are so many reviews here with the same theme I won't run on, I'll just say this."If you're wondering what to read next, read this!"
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Summary: What remains to be said?
Review: We all know that this book is one of the greatest sf novels ever. Plenty of the "gut-wrenching excitement" you love, but its genius, of course, lies in the way it depicts an alien culture every detail of which is an essential, and logical, extrapolation from one simple premise. I never understood (does anyone?) why Moties don't just legislate breeding in such a fashion that most people's children are sterile mules, but I'm picking nits. This book is unsurpassed in its elegant planning. Unsurpassed, do you hear me, unsurpassed.
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Summary: an immaginative new concept of an alien culture.
Review: I first read this book about 12 years ago. At the time it was a breathtaking and refreshing experience as to what our first encounter with an alien specices might hold in store for both them and us. I recommend it highly and would rank it with books like Dune, and Stranger in a strange land.
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Summary: BEST SF-EVER (even beats Speaker for the Dead)
Review: The Moties,in all their subspecies glory,present us with a very interesting first contact scenario. Aliens smarter than humans, yet are 1)Unable to leave their home system(No Langston Field)and 2)Regularly destroy themselves.
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Summary: Not bad, for a Niven book.
Review: A fairly arresting tale of Mankind's first contact with an intellegent species. Unfortunately it suffers from vauge personalities.. card-board characters in fantastic settings, usual Niven Fare.I found the most profound portion of this novel isnt in its main body, but rather in its short prologue, the "tiny bubbles" speech. Too bad the novel dosent deliver on the prologue's promise of dark discovery.
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Summary: A complex culture
Review: I was struck by the fact that many reviewers were impressed by the depiction of the motie culture. How convincing! Yes, it was convincing. Now read "Oath of Fealty". Another culture convincingly portrayed by the same two guys; a little closer to home this time.
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Summary: What a team!
Review: A hell of a page-turner! Couldn't let it down! Niven and Pournelle at their VERY BEST! In a line: Poor Moties -- but not only them!
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Summary: Possibly the best planned book in fiction
Review: The only other book that even compares with this book is Battlefield Earth. The authors in this book have thought of everything. The Motie civilization is old. So old, that they have exhausted their resources and have started breeding their own kind for food. So old that they have no concept of up or down in 3-dimensional space. So old that .... Frequently, I recycle my books through a used bookstore. I recycled this one and then bought it again. This book, Battlefield Earth, and Asimov's future history series are now the only books that do not go to used bookstores You have got to read this book
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Summary: Excellent
Review: In Thirty years of reading Science Fiction,when someone asks me to recommend a book,I recommend The Mote in Gods Eye.It's gripping enough for someone who has never read science fiction and get them started and sophisticated enough for those who have read science fiction all their lives,not to put it down until they are finished. I am not very good at writing what I think,but if you are looking an excellent book,no matter what you read,The Mote in Gods Eye is the book you're looking for.
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Summary: A THOROUGHLY INTRICATE YET BELIEVABLE VISON OF THE FUTURE
Review: THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE presents an utterly believable vision of the future, certainly more credible than the one offered in the United Federation of Planets. The characters of Renner, Blaine, and the three middies had a dimension of humaness that made the situation they were in, while unbelievable, credible through their actions and reactions. I must disagree with the assessment in a later review in this column and note that THE GRIPPING HAND takes the reader on the next logical step of this voyage, with the very characters in the lead, being Renner and Bury. The Empire of Man must deal with the future and a changing future it is now.
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