The mote in God's eye / by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niven, Larry.

Pournelle, Jerry, 1933-2017, author.

Contributor:

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life on other planets--Fiction.

Life on other planets.

Science fiction, American.

Human-alien encounters--Fiction.

Human-alien encounters.

Interplanetary voyages--Fiction.

Interplanetary voyages.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

537 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, [1974]

Summary:

In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched. In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million years old--that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they've been unable to solve in over a million years.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 168911

Other Format:

Online version: Niven, Larry. Mote in God's eye.

ISBN:

0671218336

9780671218331

OCLC:

934734

Publisher Number:

21833 Simon & Schuster