The Mote in God's Eye

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The Mote In God's Eye is a science fiction book written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and published in 1974. It is about future Earthlings making first contact with an alien race.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through it right now.

Review

Good

  • The authors do a decent job of not falling into the Star Trek aliens (humans with minor modifications to their face). The asymmetrical body and caste system were good ideas.

Bad

  • Overall, I find the book to be rather boring.
  • Despite creating more creative aliens, they're still remarkably human. Arms, legs, brains in their heads, speech through a throat, etc.
  • The crew are surprisingly modest about being naked around one another.

Ugly

  • Nothing.

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