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Lucifer's Hammer

By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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 The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization.

But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival - a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known....

©1985 Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Adventure Fantasy Fiction Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Classics

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Critic reviews

"Take your earthquakes, waterlogged condominiums, swarms of bugs, colliding airplanes, and flaming what-nots, wrap them up and they wouldn't match one page of Lucifer's Hammer for sweaty-palmed suspense." ( Chicago Daily News)
"Massively entertaining." ( Cleveland Plain-Dealer)
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I've been on a journey for a while now in the post apocalypse scene reading books like Swan Song, The Stand, The Passage, etc etc and this is book gives the reader nothing too special to be honest. Its not a bad read.. just not really a exciting one. I read a lot of reviews on this book before reading and I hear the word aged a lot.. I think the book has aged well and the age is a credit to the book in my opinion. This book will appeal to a few but doesn't scratch the itch I'm having for the genre sadly. Even so I want to say thanks to the author as I have a lot of appreciation for the Post apocalyptic genre and hope future authors are inspired to create my next read.
Thanks

Kaine

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I really enjoyed this story. it was written on 77 and yet the first half is very similar to the film Deep Impact that came it in 98. This is a fun story worth the read.

A truly 'Deep Impact'

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The written book was excellent when first read back in the late 70s. This audible production brings the story alive. This is one book I shall listen to again and again.

Excellent survival story

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Post apocalypse novels don't come
much better. Realistic characterisations aand situations. Fantasy but enjoyable. Pleasant dreams!

Long but engaging

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The authors never put a foot wrong. The build up to the climactic moment is immaculately done. The cast of characters is set out masterfully. And then somehow the authors sustain the suspense and keep one’s interest for the remaining two thirds of the book! Each chapter starts with wise philosophical words and continues with an all too believable lesson in anthropology through the story’s strands of how the complex characters deal with the unthinkably transformed world with which they have been left. Brilliant!

Epic Tale

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