About the book: 2020 / Larry Niven and Jerry Purnell are classics of science fiction, winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards, they wrote the novels "Lucifer's Hammer" together ", "Oath of Allegiance", "Inferno". "The Midge at the Eye of God" is their universally recognized masterpiece, an epic novel about the contact of humanity with another mind, which became a landmark event in the history of the genre.