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The Gripping Hand Softcover - 1993
by Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle
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- Title The Gripping Hand
- Author Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle
- Binding Softcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pocket Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1993
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 30603
- ISBN 9780671795740 / 0671795740
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 6.68 x 4.1 x 1.15 in (16.97 x 10.41 x 2.92 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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.