Warts and all, I'm really enjoying re-reading The Mote in God's Eye. It's crisply written, although I think it takes us too long to get to the Moties, who are the best-drawn characters. And that moment when Bury sees the spacesuit with three sets of eyes? Priceless!
However: the Moties have genetic engineers. Here collapseth the entire premise of
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