The Mote in God's Eye

I wasted a week of my life on this tedious book and I want it back! Reading this book was one miserable experience. I found it to be uninteresting, overly complicated, overly sprawling, and without focus. The ending didn't even feel like an ending. It's like the authors ran out of paper and said, "Oops, it's over". It's also very early '70s, a sausage-fest of an expedition with one woman and all the rest men. There was some commentary on slavery which can be construed as satire or racist. I couldn't figure that out. The only parts I liked were the initial introduction to the aliens and a committee debating the fate of the aliens near the end. Everything else was cardboard military space opera and mildly original aliens. I wonder if I read this book when I was in high school if I would have liked it. Somebody liked it because it was nominated for a Hugo and a Nebula in 1975.

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