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The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven5/22/2023 There is a reference to these events in Pournelle's novel King David's Spaceship. The Mote in God's Eye (originally titled Motelight) is set in Pournelle's CoDominium universe, where a union of the United States and the Soviet Union produced a world government and a number of colonies in other star systems, followed by nuclear war on Earth and the rise of the First Empire based on the planet Sparta several centuries before the events of the novel. The Mote in God's Eye was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards in 1975. The title of the novel is a reference to the Biblical " The Mote and the Beam" parable and is the nickname of a star. The story is set in the distant future of Pournelle's CoDominium universe, and charts the first contact between humanity and an alien species. The Mote in God's Eye is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1974.
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