The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye

THE GRIPPING HAND His Excellency Horace Hussein Al-Shamlan Bury, trader and magnate, had hoped never again to hear mention of the gripping hand. Moties, the only aliens mankind has ever encountered, have two delicate right arms ending in hands that are wonderfully dextrous - and one powerful left arm, which wields the gripping hand... RETURN TO MOTE PRIM While Bury is investigating an excess cash flow on the Imperial planet Maxroy's Purchase, his long-time friend and pilot Kevin Renner first sounds the alarm: the dreaded Moties have escaped quarantine. And so begins for Bury and Renner an adventure unsuited to men of their age, which returns them to Mote Prime, launches them into battle in space...and reveals, once more, their unorthodox appreciation of Motie intelligence and ingenuity. Eighteen years in the making, this is the brilliant sequel to one of the most acclaimed science fiction novels of our time, The Mote in God's Eye, which was called by Robert Heinlein 'possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read'. `A major novel, sure to be one of the most popular books of the year' Science Fiction Chronicle