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Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle: The Mote in God's Eye (1991) 4 stars

Science fiction classic about the rise, fall and subsequent rise of a civilization where the …

Simply fantastic

5 stars

The authors did a great job on this one.

The setting in this is superb. It starts out with a chronology of events that immediately made this world really interesting to me. I loved it all the way. Characters are good.

Having watched quite a bit of Star Trek old TV shows really helped me picture a bunch of the things and dialogues in this. It made it really enjoyable.

The Moties are one of the most interesting species I've seen, even if I couldn't take it seriously as a name, its just too cute, which I guess makes sense. Their discovery and their history is quite interesting too, so many what ifs.

It is not the most action packed or the most intense book overall, but it has its moments of great suspense and thrill. I found it quite realistic and the plot developed really well, and the way the conflict resolves is quite human and real.

The characters are also fantastic! Rod and Sally made a great duo and the rest of the characters are also pretty nice. Or at least they worked the way they're supposed to, some are really annoying, but its only human nature.

I would love to lose my memory and read it again, its that good