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 Earthlings in the year 3017 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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