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, and The Legacy of Heorot, among others. The Mote in God's Eyes
is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel in mankind's first
encounter with alien life that transcends the genre.