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Lucifer’s Hammer

A Novel

By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

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Mass Market Paperback $8.99

May 12, 1985 | ISBN 9780449208137

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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May 12, 1985

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About Lucifer’s Hammer

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

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. . . .

“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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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 & Fantasy

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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“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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