Mote in God's Eye - Hardcover
Book by Niven,Larry Jerry Pournelle
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In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched.
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In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million years old--that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they've been unable to solve in over a million years.
This is the first collaboration between Niven and Pournelle, two masters of hard science fiction, and it combines Pournelle's interest in the military and sociology with Niven's talent for creating interesting, believable aliens. The novel meticulously examines every aspect of First Contact, from the Moties' biology, society, and art, to the effects of the meeting on humanity's economics, politics, and religions. And all the while suspense builds as we watch the humans struggle toward the truth. --Brooks Peck
Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ringworld, Debt of Honor,and The Integral Trees. Together they have written the critically acclaimed bestsellers Inferno, Footfall, and The Legacy of Heorot,among others. The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0297770039
- ISBN 13 9780297770039
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages537
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Ex library (sadly!) with usual stamps and defects, jacket laminated to boards, inside flaps and ffep missing. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, price missing, some yellowing and dust staining to page block, no personal inscriptions, bad lean, internally cleanish and tight, overall a reasonable reading copy for its age. 537pp. Aliens, Moties, were first contacted in AD3017 in the region of space known as the Coalsack. The eponymous mote in his eye, which has winked out, much to the distress of pious Himmists, just might have been Motie laser light. It might even indicate the position of their home planet. The united 'Second Empire of Man' spans vast distances, due to the Alderson Drive which has enabled humans to travel easily between the stars. After the alien probe is discovered, the Navy dispatches two ships to determine whether the aliens pose a threat. This book was described by Robert A. Heinlein as 'Possibly the greatest science fiction novel ever written'. Jerry Eugene Pournelle (1933-2017), was an American polymath, scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. A very scarce book in this first UK impression, even in this compromised condition. Seller Inventory # 010602
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dramatis Personae and chronology. Black coloured boards with light blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and blue and white coloured titles to the back strip. Man's first contact with nonhuman intelligent alien beings. Bumping of the lower book corners with a little softening of the back strip edges. The top right hand corner of the free front end page has been torn out roughly. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. A little rubbing of the dustwrapper edge and panels with some yellowing of the rear dustwrapper panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 7 - 537, [3] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0297770039. ISBN/EAN: 9780297770039. Inventory No: 0290874. Seller Inventory # 0290874
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven (First UK Edition) File Copy A tight bright copy. Minor edge wear to the jacket. Not price-clipped. States, "First published in Great Britain in 1975 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.". BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX14380-1
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed/1st pr, SIGNED on title page by AUTHOR (Niven). This book is square, solid, and unread with FAINT evidence of handling to the sides of the pages; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the dust jacket is sharp and protected by a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. The Brodart-protected dust jacket is REALLY sharp with just some jots of edge wear and smudginess to the white area on the back. You'll order "Set phasers to stun!" in clipped tones of cold command once you have this book in your hands! NOTE: The book is a discard from the Weidenfeld publisher's archival library, and on the FFEP there is a stamp to that effect: 'WEIDENFELD LIBRARY.'. Signed by Authors. Book. Seller Inventory # 035290
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