{"id":177,"date":"2008-07-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2008-07-09T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T07:00:00","slug":"mote-in-gods-eye-the-by-niven-larry-jerry-pournelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"<u>Mote in God&#8217;s Eye, The<\/u>, by Niven, Larry &#038; Jerry Pournelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the history of SF there have been innumerable team-ups by authors.  Pohl and Kornbluth.  Dickson and Anderson.  Zelazny and Dick.  Moore and Kuttner.  But in my opinion there has never been a greater team than Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.  These two pretty much renewed the entire genre by going through many of the major themes and producing a blockbuster (and very Heinleinian) novel for each.  1976 brought us Inferno, an odd religion book which was a modern interpretation of Dante&apos;s<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/162'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/162'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the history of SF there have been innumerable team-ups by authors. Pohl and Kornbluth. Dickson and Anderson. Zelazny and Dick. Moore and Kuttner. But in my opinion there has never been a greater team than Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. These two pretty much renewed the entire genre by going through many of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2474,2479,2483,2636,2491,2493,2497,2504,2500,2556,2536,2496,2512,2468,2499,2532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}