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After the discussion in here, I picked up The Mote in God's Eye. Haven't gotten very far into it yet (just to the point of the first contact), but it made me wonder if Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky was conceived as a rebuttal to this novel.
Military-inspired hardons aside, the novel has some of the worst characterization I've read in a critically-acclaimed sci-fi novel. Egan and Liu are Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky when compared to the Pournelle/Niven duo.
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