title: The Mote In God's Eye
author: Jerry Pournelle
description: Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Pocket Books, Inc.,1974
zlib_text: e Mote in God's Eye
  Larry Niven and
  Jerry Pournelle
  is is a work of ﬁction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
  book are ﬁctional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is
  purely coincidental.
  Copyright © 1974 by Larry Niven and Jerry PournelleREFLEX Copyright
  © 1982 by Niven and Pournell ﬁrst appeared in ere Will Be War
  Copyright © 1983 by Jerry Pournelle (Baen Books)Building the Mote in
  God's Eye Copyright 1990 by Larry Niven ﬁrst appeared in N-Space
  Copyright 1990 by Niven (Tor Books)
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  thereof in any form.
  A Baen Books Original
  Baen Publishing Enterprises
  P.O. Box 1403
  Riverdale, NY 10471
  ISBN: 0-671-74192-6
  First printing, March 1974
  Distributed by Simon & Schuster
  1230 Avenue of the Americas
  New York, NY 10020
  Printed in the United States of America
  To Marilyn and Roberta, who put up with us while we wrote this; and to
  Lurton and Ginny, who made us do the job over again.
  And why beh