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The gripping hand

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

Twenty-five years after humanity quarantined the alien Moties within their solar system, the barrier separating them from the galaxy begins to fail. Humanity must confront the threat of a biologically specialised alien race driven by an evolutionary compulsion to breed.

Accession 15034 ISBN 0671795732 Publisher Pocket Books
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