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The Gripping Hand

35.7% complete
1993
1994
1 time
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Part 1 - Snow Ghost
1 - Interaction Nook
2 - Receptions
3 - The Maguey Worm
4 - Snow Ghost
5 - The True Church
Part 2 - Sparta
1 - Capital City
2 - Tourists
3 - Jock
4 - Veto
5 - Passengers
6 - The Seeds of Treason
Part 3 - The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye
1 - New Ireland
2 - The High Commission
3 - Communications
4 - The I-point
5 - The Battle of Crazy Eddie's Sister
6 - Hostile Takeover
7 - Labyrinth of Lies
8 - Medina Base Six
Part 4 - The Crazy Eddie Worm
1 - The Tartars
2 - Vermin City
3 - Chocolate
4 - Messages
5 - The Guns of Medina Point
6 - Judgment
7 - Jump Shock
8 - Stern Chase
Epilogue - Endgame
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© 1993 by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
those most patient of ladies...
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The Moties could hardly be aware that they were showing him Cerberus's Motie section for the first time, and on the record.  Terry waved his camera where he would.  He was not trying for detail, but rather looking for whatever would bear further investigation.
    He didn't get much of that.  He was in a tube that curved like a loop of intestine.  Here a dark opening, here a bulge and an armed Warrior clinging to handholds, here a lighted opening and a first glimpse of an older Master.  "Studying me.  I'd better not stop," he said.  "Victoria isn't"
    The tube ended in a canister full of Warriors in armored pressure suits.
    Victoria waved him in.  The Warriors watched him, every one.  "Forty armed and armored Warriors watched him, no two weapons alike, and... that one's pregnant, and that one."  Distinct bulges in the armor, where a human heart would be.  Terry let the camera hold on four others: "And I don't know what to make of those."

 

Added: 25-Jan-2003
Last Updated: 29-Jun-2022

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 01-Jan-1994
Pocket Books
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1994
Cover Price:
$5.99
Pages*:
413
Read:
Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
240
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-671-79574-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-671-79574-0
Printing:
2
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Lee MacLeod  - Cover Artist
Eighteen years in the making - here at last is the sequel to one of the most acclaimed science fiction novels of our time, THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE.

Robert Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read."  The San Francisco Chronicle declared that "as science fiction, The Mote in God's Eye is one of the most important novels ever published."  Now Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, award-winning authors of such bestsellers as Footfall and The Legacy of Heorot return us to the Mote, and to the universe of Kevin Renner and Horace Bury, of Rod Blaine and Sally Fowler.

There, twenty-five years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system.  They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered - a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function.  Master.  Mediator.  Engineer.  Warrior.  Each supremely adapted to its task, yet doomed by millions of years of evolution to an inescapable fate.  For the Moties must breed - or die.

And now the fragile wall separating them and the galaxy beyond is beginning to crumble.
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Read while working at the City of Oklahoma City in the basement of the courthouse.  Bought new.  Gave to Audrey at MAR-K in 2013.

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Author(s)

Larry Niven  
Birth: 30 Apr 1938 Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:
Larry Niven is the pen name of Laurence van Cott Niven.  He was born in 1938 in California.  He received a Bachelor's of Science in mathematics from Washburn University in Kansas.  His first publication was "The Coldest Place" for If in 1964.  He has since written many books including those in his Tales of Known Space series which also began in "The Coldest Place".
From Beowulf's Children:

Born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Technology; flunked out after discovering a book store jammed with used science fiction magazines.  Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. Interests: Science fiction conventions, role playing games, AAAS meetings and other gatherings of people at the cutting edges of science. Comics. Filk singing. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. Moving mankind into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. Several times we’ve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. I grew up with dogs. I live with a cat, and borrow dogs to hike with. I have passing acquaintance with raccoons and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans has certainly gained me insight into alien intelligences.

Jerry Pournelle  
Birth: 07 Aug 1933 Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Notes:
Jerry E. Pournelle, Ph.D. has earned a Bachelors degree Mathematics a Masters degree in Experimental Statistics and Systems Engineering and Doctorates in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Washington.  He is Senior Consulting Editor at BYTE Magazine and chairs the Citizen's Advisory Council on National Space Policy and the Lunar Society, Inc.

With Larry Niven he has written several novels, one of which is The Mote In God's Eye which is considered to be one of the best "first-contact" novels written.

Jerry Pournelle was the first writer to use a computer to write both fiction and non-fiction and his first personal computer, Ezekiel, is displayed in the Museum of American History, History of Computing and Communications exhibit, at the Smithsonian Institution.

He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and now lives in California.  He married Roberta Jane nee Isdell in 1959 and they have four sons and one daughter.
From Beowul's Children:

Jerry Pournelle is the author of the popular Janissaries and CoDominium series and co-author with Larry Niven of several bestselling science fiction novels, including INFERNO, FOOTFALL, LUCIFER'S HAMMER, OATH OF FEALTY, THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE, THE GRIPPING HAND, THE BURNING CITY, BURNING TOWER and ESCAPE FROM HELL. Dr. Pournelle has advanced degrees in engineering, political science, statistics and psychology. As an aerospace Systems Analyst he participated in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Following a brief tour in academia he was the Executive Assistant to the Mayor of Los Angeles. He was the Science Editor for Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, and is a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He has written columns on political and technology issues for decades, in addition to his career as a fiction writer. His columns for Byte magazine have been an internet staple for many years. Dr. Pournelle has been involved in the development of government policy on space enterprises and defense, and he is active on several committees for the advancement of science and space exploration. He was Chairman of the Reagan "kitchen cabinet" Citizen's Advisory Committee on National Space Policy, and frequently participates in conferences on the future of technology.

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