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Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

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Lucifer’s Hammer

A Novel

By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Category: Science Fiction

Mass Market Paperback $8.99

May 12, 1985 | 640 Pages

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Mass Market Paperback
May 12, 1985 | 640 Pages

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About Lucifer’s Hammer

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. . . .

Praise for Lucifer’s Hammer

“The first satisfying end-of-the-world novel in years . . . an ultimate one . . . massively entertaining.”—Cleveland Plain-Dealer

“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

About Larry Niven

Larry Niven was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, California. In 1956, he entered the California Institute of Technology, only… More about Larry Niven

Product Details

Category: Science Fiction

Mass Market Paperback | $8.99
Published by Del Rey
May 12, 1985 | 640 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780449208137

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Praise

“The first satisfying end-of-the-world novel in years . . . an ultimate one . . . massively entertaining.”—Cleveland Plain-Dealer

“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

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