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Lucifer's Hammer

By: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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Summary

 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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Where does Lucifer's Hammer rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

one of my favourite listens.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Harvey - trying to do the best he can in difficult circumstances

Which scene did you most enjoy?

Batlle scence at the end

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

how quickly life can change

Any additional comments?

really good book, not dated and tackles the real issues faced by humanity after such a catastrophic event. Good characterisation and I would love to see a sequel or movie!
Book went along at good pace.

Timeless classic

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I enjoyed this book very much, I liked the way it plays out in the end, it wasn?t a happy end or sad but I could imagine it happing this way, worth getting.

Better 2012 than the film

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Arguably the best apocalyptic novel ever written. Set in the 70s but that only really affected a couple of scenes.

A classic

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When a team of people is needed to go out on an expedition from the safety of a valley stronghold... into a post apocalypse world to find useful things that may be needed, it is agreed that only 50 MEN can be spared for the expedition... This basically sums up the book.(if this situation were real you would surely choose the 50 most appropriate persons regardless of their biological sex, as it would be more logical)

Great Story but pointless and irrational chauvinism!

Great Story, but extremely annoying chauvinism.

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Really enjoyed this book, and interesting to listen to this type of story written in the 1970s compared to all the disaster films we're surrounded by today!

As much a social commentary as a science fiction story, ie what lengths would we go to to survive this type of event, what really drives us, and what depths would we sink to - all things we may need to consider in the coming decades if we don't tackle the environmental challenges that face us.

A good listen which I would definitely recommend.

Very thought-provoking

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