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| Title | : | The Gripping Hand (Moties #2) |
| Author | : | Larry Niven |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 413 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1994 by Pocket Books (first published January 1st 1976) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy |
Larry Niven
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 413 pages Rating: 3.82 | 10619 Users | 252 Reviews
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For the safety of mankind, the aliens called Moties have been quarantined for 25 years (see THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE) and are now poised to break out of their solar system and spread rapidly into humanity's space. Kevin Renner, Horace Bury, Rod Blaine and other characters introduced in THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE must now find new ways to cope with the inevitable Motie expansion while trying to protect humanity. Sequel to the novel Robert A. Heinlein called "Possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read."
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| Original Title: | The Gripping Hand (Moties #2) |
| ISBN: | 0671795740 (ISBN13: 9780671795740) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Moties #2, TÅ™Ãskané #3 |
| Characters: | Kevin Renner, Horace Hussein Al-Shamian Bury |
Rating Out Of Books The Gripping Hand (Moties #2)
Ratings: 3.82 From 10619 Users | 252 ReviewsEvaluate Out Of Books The Gripping Hand (Moties #2)
Have you ever watched a sequel to a movie that you really liked, and partway into it realized that the whole purpose of the movie was for the stars to have a paid summer vacation? (Yes Ocean's Twelve, I'm looking at you.) The plot is thin, marginal characters from the original show up, there are a lot of exotic locales and gratuitous makeouts between characters (onscreen or off), and basically everyone in the production, if not the audience, is having fun.The Gripping Hand is that conceptIt's always hard to follow up a great book with an equally enjoyable sequel. While I have speculated that this is because the best ideas tend to get used up in the first book, it goes without saying that so many sequels fail to live up to their predecessor. With "The Gripping Hand," Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle present their attempt to follow up the success of "The Mote in God's Eye," and while it is an admirable effort, I believe that it falls short, if only just.The first book in this two
This sequel to The Mote in God's Eye is a two-time DNF for me. I like the first book so much and I kept thinking, even if the sequel's not as good, it has to be worth reading, and I really want to find out what happened with the Moties. And both times--several years apart--I got about half-way through, bogged down and quit. The storyline just got too slow and confusing and I completely lost interest.I was reasonably engaged with the first half of the story, which involves a mystery with a Mormon
This is one of those rare novels that I just can't finish. If I'm halfway through and I still have found not an iota to like, I'll pack it in. When I was younger, I toughed out everything. "I never put a book down, no matter how bad!" Whatever, Young & Stupid Me. Life is too short to slog through terrible shit.Now, I loved "The Mote in God's Eye". That was a four-star sci-fi space opera epic. This...I don't even know what to say. A lot of people found fault with the shallow characterization
This book was just OK. It was nice to revisit the Moties universe, but the story was simply not sufficiently coherent. Despite the fact that there was a very clear overarching plot, the story still somehow gave the impression that it was cobbled together out of a few mostly meandering novellas.In the first section, Renner and Bury are visiting a somewhat fringe world to try to investigate some anomalies, and they fear the Moties may have secretly escaped the Mote system. This was a decent
The Gripping Hand (1993) is Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelles sequel to their popular 1974 novel The Mote in Gods Eye, which you probably want to read first. This review will have a couple of spoilers for The Mote in Gods Eye.Recall that by the year 3017 AD, humans had designed the Alderson Drive an interstellar transporter which allowed them to jump out of our galaxy to colonize different star systems. Then they discovered the first alien species the Moties who were excellent engineers but
love a good sequel :)
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