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I love Larry Niven's books. There's something in the way he writes that I can read things even as absurd as The Integral Trees :) It'll be no surprise then to say that I really liked “The mote...”. It's not one of those books that flood you with new ideas and change your perception of the world, but I still had tremendous amount of fun reading it.If anything, it was the religious aspects of the story irked me off. Religion-backed empire is not an unusual concept, but in here it's a bit too embedded into characters' morals. Some protagonists are showing the kind of discountenance that could only be implied by some rigorous religious ethics - while they don't have a problem acting against those ethics at other times. Good example would be “censorship” of Watchmaker's copulation. It almost felt like someone wrote those scenes specifically into the story, to make a conservative reader happy.This aside, the book was really good. Interesting story, well constructed conflict, really neatly described action scenes. Really worth reading, if you like good science fiction stories.
I love Larry Niven's books. There's something in the way he writes that I can read things even as absurd as The Integral Trees :) It'll be no surprise then to say that I really liked “The mote...”. It's not one of those books that flood you with new ideas and change your perception of the world, but I still had tremendous amount of fun reading it.If anything, it was the religious aspects of the story irked me off. Religion-backed empire is not an unusual concept, but in here it's a bit too embedded into characters' morals. Some protagonists are showing the kind of discountenance that could only be implied by some rigorous religious ethics - while they don't have a problem acting against those ethics at other times. Good example would be “censorship” of Watchmaker's copulation. It almost felt like someone wrote those scenes specifically into the story, to make a conservative reader happy.This aside, the book was really good. Interesting story, well constructed conflict, really neatly described action scenes. Really worth reading, if you like good science fiction stories.