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Author
Index
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Larry
Niven |
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Title
Index
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The
Mote in God's Eye |
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Co-Author
Jerry Pournelle |
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| Year |
1974 |
| Publisher |
Orbit |
| ISBN |
0860079066 |
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Synopsis
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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.
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Review
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'The
best novel about
human beings
making first
contact with
intelligent but
utterly nonhuman
aliens I have ever
seen, and possibly
the finest science
fiction novel I
have ever read.'
Robert Heinlein
'A spellbinder,
a swashbuckler ...
and best of all it
has a brilliant
new approach to
that fascinating
problem - first
contact with
aliens.'
Frank Herbert |
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Credit:
NASA
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Floating
Free
In
February
1984,
Mission
Specialist
Bruce
McCandless
II went
further
away from
the
confines
and safety
of his
ship than
any
previous
astronaut
had ever
been. This
space
first was
made
possible
by the
Manned
Manuevering
Unit or
MMU, a
nitrogen
jet
propelled
backpack.
After a
series of
test
maneuvers
inside and
above
Challenger's
payload
bay,
McCandless
went
"free-flying"
to a
distance
of 320
feet away
from the
Orbiter.
This
stunning
orbital
panorama
view shows
McCandless
out there
amongst
the black
and blue
of Earth
and space. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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