The Gripping Hand
- 413
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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About the book
The Gripping Hand is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published in 1993. A sequel to their 1974 work The Mote in God's Eye, The Gripping Hand is, chronologically, the last novel to be set in the CoDominium universe. In the United Kingdom, it was released as The Moat around Murcheson's Eye.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 107 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 42% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 16 | 15% |
| Google Books | 7.0 | 8 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 83 | 78% |
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It has 413 pages — shorter than 58% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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