Thread: A Science Fiction Novel YOU would recommend
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Old 07-13-2009, 08:39 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by mtnmedic View Post
The Mote In God's Eye (and the follow-up, The Gripping Hand) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Possibly one of the most important works of sci-fi to exist.
How so? Is this generally agreed upon? This is the first I heard these two books so highly praised.

Surely Niven's "Ringworld" trilogy (the fourth being but a shadow) eclipses these two books in significance by far. No?

Genuinely curious--not being sarcastic.

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