3.88 avg rating — 2,240 ratings

"The work that launched Jerry Pournelle's career: Winner of the 1974 John Campbell Award for a first SF novel. A "prequel" to the Mote series, set the same year as "first contact" on the other end of the Empire."

4.07 avg rating — 73,092 ratings

"The first in the "Mote" series, called the "best first contact novel of all time" by Robert Heinlein."

3.84 avg rating — 12,514 ratings

"The second in the "Mote" series: you loved it, or you hated it."

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