The Gripping Hand (Moties 2) – Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle Free Audiobook

Written by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Read by Ken Kliban
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Twenty-five years ago, Horace Bury accompanied the first humans to make contact with strange aliens called Moties. His terrifying experience with the Moties haunts him to the present. Bury, now a rich space merchant, dedicates his considerable wealth and influence to keeping the Moties confined to their own solar system. If they escape, he knows it will be the end of mankind.

Sequel to The Mote in God’s Eye.

BONUS:
Jennifer R. Pournelle – Outies (Moties 3)
[E-book, not available in audio]

In a return to the CoDominium universe of the Second Empire of Man, Outies pauses at the fringes of human space, on an outworld that never knew fossil fuels. New Utah instead pushed crude solar technologies to the limits of everyday utility. But a planet is a big place – and it’s time for the New Utahns to meet the neighbors. Blending hard science and social science, Outies explores complexities of biology, geology, and ecology at the heart of alien Motie society and evolution. While military science fiction in a sense, that sense is very much of the wars of our time. Outies plunges through the confusion, chaos, factionalism, and unpredictability of low intensity conflict with realism, but largely through civilian eyes. In a twist on traditional space opera, it introduces Asach Quinn – a wily, thoughtful, genderless, and diplomatic foil to reckless pilot Kevin Renner. Leaving the aristocratic manors of Sparta, Quinn burrows deep inside the heads of members of the Church of Him – who believe that the red dwarf visible twinkling through the Coal Sack Nebula is literally the Eye of God.