Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning
Ringworld, Debt of Honor,
and
The Integral Trees.
Together they have written the critically acclaimed bestsellers
Inferno, Footfall,
The Legacy of Heorot,
among others.
The Mote In God's Eye
is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre.