Series
Moties
Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven & J. R. Pournelle · 3 novels · 1 short story · 1974–2011
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye (1974) depicts humanity's first contact with an alien species, the Moties, set within the far-future interstellar setting of Pournelle's codominium future history. The Gripping Hand continues that first-contact crisis years later, and Outies, written by J. R. Pournelle, carries the story forward into a new generation. Together the three books trace an escalating encounter between human and Motie civilizations within the codominium universe.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Moties at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s1
- 1990s1
- 2000s0
- 2010s1
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
3 authors
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Gripping Handdarkest · most intense
- Outiesbrightest · calmest