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Book Review of The Gripping Hand (aka The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye) (Moties, Bk 2)

The Gripping Hand (aka The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye) (Moties, Bk 2)
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There, twenty-five years have passed since humanity quarantined the mysterious aliens known as Moties within the confines of their own solar system. They have spent a quarter century analyzing and agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens mankind has ever encountered--a race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different fuction. Master. Mediator. Engineer. Warrior. Each supremely adapted to its task, yet doomed by millions of years of evolution to an inescapable fate. For the Moties must breed -- or die.

And now the fragile wall separating them and the galaxy beyond is beginning to crumble...