[buwaya]

Absolutely right.
Mote in God’s Eye would be spectacular.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Mote in God’s Eye would be spectacular."

Eggsactly Batman!

and A Canticle for Leibowitz

and Ring World

and Snow Crash

and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

and A Stranger in a Strange Land

and Dayworld

and Island in the Sea of Time

and Dies the Fire

and Cryptonomicon

and Lucifer's Hammer

and Earth Abides

and Alas Babylon

and Foundation

and Fallen Angels (by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn)

and Neuromancer

etc. etc. etc.

[Salgak]

Or Ringo’s “Troy” novels. Or, for real fun, Larry Correia’s “Monster Hunter International” books. . .