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I read The Mote in God’s Eye several years ago; I remember I really liked it in general, even though Sally also kind of annoyed me.
The female characters in Niven and Heinlein who are supposed to be really smart, trained scientists who are only ever shown as attractive, over-emotional airheads always annoyed me. It’s like the Bond Girl phenomenon, only in a medium that’s supposed to be better thought-out that your average James Bond film.
I also didn’t remember the (literally!) compulsory-pregnancy thing, and totally missed the racism. (I also remember a Muslim character, a diplomat, but don’t remember enough about how he was portrayed.)
Mote in God’s Eye was my gateway to Niven in general, though, whom I love for his worldbuilding, and whose alien species amuse me because they were clearly created by an engineer rather than a biologist, and he’s just clever enough about it to make it work most of the time. But his characters tend to be really flat and boring.
There was one book of his, The Integral Trees, that I actually thought did fairly well at representing female characters (there’s even a trans woman! She dies, but she’s there and she’s not a ridiculous caricature) and characters with disabilities. (Most of the heroes are PWD, which I can’t think of another science-fiction adventure novel right off where that happened). It’s not perfect, there is some genderfail I could detect, but it seemed to me to be miles ahead of everything else of his I’d read (Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld’s Children, Mote in God’s Eye, Gripping Hand).
So if you’re not totally through with Niven, you might check that one out. (Here’s a review I wrote of it on my blog).
Ach, I read the Integral Trees so long ago I didn’t remember the trans woman! Maybe I’ll give that one a go again…though I heard about a particularly vile Niven comment today on Shakesville, so…maybe not.
The Muslim character in MiGE is a particularly devious merchant, guilty of high treason for organizing a rebellion against the Empire…and for all that, he’s portrayed fairly sympathetically, especially after he comes to the conclusion that the Moties are evil incarnate.
Incidentally, that particular Muslim character is the lead in The Gripping Hand, TMiGE’s sequel. Not that it matters.