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This Week's Suggested Book
from the
Ashbrook Center
(Week of August 31, 1998)

The Mote in God's Eye

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

Published by Pocket Books
288 pages, 1987
Paperback, $5.59
ISBN: 0-671-74192-6

Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ringworld, Debt of Honor,and The Integral Trees. Together they have written the critically acclaimed bestsellers Inferno, Footfall, and The Legacy of Heorot,among others. The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre.

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