![]() ![]() As usual, the authors present a large cast of characters, including a few from Mote many of the latter have matured engagingly, although the aliens are still more interesting than any of the humans. The search for some way to prevent that disaster leads them eventually to a second visit to the Moties' system. ![]() Here, some 25 years after the events of Mote-in which human explorers discovered a remarkably adaptable, and terribly dangerous, alien race, the Moties-two survivors of the expedition, Horace Hussein Bury, now a rich trader, and Kevin Rennet, retired from the Imperial Space Navy to work as his pilot, become convinced that the Moties are on the verge of breaking the quarantine around their solar system, an event that would plunge the human race into a war for survival. The much-anticipated sequel to The Mote In God's Eye (1974), which put Niven and Pournelle on the bestseller lists (more recent collaborations: The Legacy of Heorot, with Steven Barnes, 1987 Footfall, 1985). ![]()
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