The mote in God's eye
In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years
Pocket book, 82358
Science fiction
x, 560 pages ; 18 cm
9780671491758, 9780671741921, 9780671823580, 9780671801076, 067149175X, 0671741926, 0671823582, 0671801074
17626426
Includes excerpts from "The Burning City" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle