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Robert Heinlein called it "most likely the finest knowledge fiction novel I have ever before read". The San Francisco Chronicle announced that "as knowledge fiction, The Mote in God's Eyes is one of the most important novels ever before published". Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award-winning creators of such best sellers as Footfall and The Legacy of Heorot, go back us to the Mote, also to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler. There, 25 years have handed since mankind quarantined the strange aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They may have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing on the deadly hazard posed by the only real aliens mankind has ever before came across - a contest divided into distinct biological varieties, each serving another function: Get better at, Mediator, Engineer, Warrior. Each supremely adapted to its job, yet doomed by an incredible number of years of development to a inescapable destiny. For the Moties must breed - or die. And today the fragile wall membrane separating them and the galaxy beyond is starting to crumble.
