THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE Author:LARRY NIVEN & JERRY POURNELLE A black hole in space, and piercing through, a beam of ruby light brighter than a hundred moons. Was it the eye on the face of God, or the blood red sun of our first intergalactic visitors? The Mote In God,s Eye. The delicate mission of the warship MacArthur - to seek out and confront an extraterrestrial world where eerie, silent beings defy kno... more »wn biology . . . where minature creatures, idiot savants are used as deadly weapons . . . and where reassuring smiles hide a planetary secret of devastating universal impact.« less