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The Mote in God's eye

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2025-04-06

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Science fiction by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

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I'm re-reading this book on my Kobo. It's a book I first read back in the 70's. +I probably bought it at Shakespeare & Co. a famous bookshop in the latin quarter of Paris, where +I could go and spend a couple of hours reading a book in a big leather armchair, +so it bears a touch of nostalgia for me.

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The premise is of an intelligent species (the Moties), locked in it's own solar system, +victim of endless cycles of expansion and destruction due to it's fertility. +Larry Niven thought big when he wrote novels like Ringworld, and here it's no exception.

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Some things seem a bit dated, for example the descendents of Russia, America or Scotland +being important in the distant future, but all in all a good thought provoking read. +To me it begs the question: what if our own species winds up becoming Moties?

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