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Lucifer's Hammer
By : by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
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Original Title : Lucifer's Hammer
ISBN : 0449208133 (ISBN13: 9780449208137)
Edition Language : English
Series : Tim Hamner, Eileen Hamner, Harvey Randall, Arthur Jellison, Henry Armitage
Paperback, #20813-3, 629 pages
Published July 12th 1977 by Fawcett Crest (first published 1977)
Characters : California (United States)
Setting : Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1977)
Description : alternate cover for ISBN 0708813623The chances that Lucifer's Hammer would hit the earth head-on were one in a million. Then one in a thousand. Then one in a hundred. And then ... even less.
Literary Awards : Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1977)
REVIEWS :Full review (links and all) at https://clsiewert.wordpress.com/2015/... because I am going to digress like you won't believe...Good grief, reading hasn’t been such a chore since Professional Nursing Practice Foundations and Concepts. And in the fiction world, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. So perhaps you should take my review with a grain of salt, since plenty of people love Strange (unsurprisingly, no one admits to loving Practice Foundations). Niven and Pournelle start with a great idea, a The Hammer disregards all pleas not to 'hurt 'em.'_____There should be a name for the particular type of book that is exemplified by some popular novels published between the late 1950s and the early 1980s. It's very distinctive, but hard to describe. Some characteristics include: an insistence on referring to men by their last names only, flat characterization which tends to adhere to sterotypical gender roles, a focus on jobs/career as being a key part of identity, and a predominance of Now originally I had this marked as a re-read but do you know, if I had read it, I didn't remember it one little bit so I'm guessing I have really never read this before, which I have to say is very remiss of me, as this is a very good book, that's very good not great. I have always enjoyed Larry Niven's books, hey Ringworld is one of my favourite SF books of all time, and this book is just so typically Niven. What do I mean by typically Niven ? Well he is one of the best exponents of world and There was a time when Larry Niven was one of my favorite authors. Of course, that time was when I was an immature SF geek who didn't read much else. Okay, I still think Ringworld was kind of awesome. And I have fond memories of some of his other collaborations with Jerry Pournelle, e.g. Footfall and Oath of Fealty. But the last few I have read really unearthed things I didn't notice when I was younger, and this one, which was one of their early collaborations, really shows its age.Lucifer's I just knocked this one off my top one-hundred novels of all time, but I did it with a heavy heart.Memories of a novel sometimes simply don't live up to a re-read.On the other hand, there are quite a few things about it that are still freaking fantastic, such as the science and the emotional impact of the comet strike. Most of the first third of the novel focused on the 70's modern society, with all the strange views common of that time, but that wasn't the most striking feature. I was humbled The next stop in my end-of-the-world reading marathon was Lucifier's Hammer, the 1977 disaster epic by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Niven was an established, Nebula Award winning author in Los Angeles when in the early 1970s, he was approached by Pournelle, an engineer with a military background who lived in the area. Pournelle was looking for a partner to teach him how to write and inexplicably, the pair went on to co-author nine novels together. After a dedication to Neil Armstrong and In deep space.A little smudge appears,near Neptune.Amateur astronomer,Timothy Hammer.Millionaire playboy.He's rather a timid, philanderer. From a third generation, wealthy family.In Los Angeles. Tim, inherited a big soap company.Sees the object.Through his telescope.A very unimpressive thing.But it gets bigger.And the people ,will notice,soon enough.A lot,in fact.Become very scared... In his private observatory.Located on a mountain top, outside the city .After numberless lonely nights. My God I loved this book! Back in high school I thought I wasn't a reader. Then I had an English teacher, Andy Page who would suggest I read certain books. This was the first one he recommended.I found out it wasn't that I didn't like to read. It was that I didn't like to read crappy books. Lucifer's Hammer is the sci-fi book I use to measure all sci-fi books against. With a memorable band of characters, a doomsday clock ticks down along with the explanation of the odds of the comet hitting the An excellent 1970s disaster book. It’s a mix of many 70s themes space, Soyuz, the end of the world, communists, war, societal unrest. Those that lived through the 70s remember the threat of nuclear war ending the world. Here a comet replaces MAD but the results are about the same to include nuclear winter but without the radiation. A large cast of diverse characters attempt to show the effects of destruction and a new society. Yep, still a five star read for me. It's everything a post-apocalyptic book should be, including very realistic. I've been reading this book for 25 years and I've probably read it 20 times and I'll read it 20 more. "We control the lightning!" Very interesting read. The idea of a comet strike is a scary one, for sure, and even though this may be a little dated, the outcomes still seem pertinent. While I liked the story overall, I never did really connect with the characters. Not the book I remember reading in high-school. Of course that was thirty-four years ago! Times and attitudes change. What was a thrilling page turner is now a cliched and overblown melodrama. What happened? Sterotypes, cliches, overwrought writing, and some real interesting ideas about race, men and women. Not to mention a pretty negative view on Human nature in general. Talk about dark. And I've been a cop for the past nineteen years! Not everyone is that horrible or that quick to give into Lucifer’s Hammer falls into the “End of the World/Catastrophic Event/How Will the Human Race Survive” category, and it can be further broken down into those niche genres in SF which wipe California off the face of the map then discuss how Earth will survive.Destruction of California aside, this was a really good book. Tim Hamner discovers a comet, which upon further investigation will be moving through Earths solar system in the immediate near future. Chances of it hitting are a million to one… Lucifer's Hammer isn't just a book about a comet. Lucifer's Hammer is a full-on 1970s disaster film, full of polyester flared slacks and unfortunate hair. All the peril and pathos of an epic apocalyptic masterpiece, set around the Hollywood normal lives of strangely familiar characters dramatically ripped asunder and the epic levels they go to for survival. It's a big book in more than page numbers.What I liked:It's smart. There is a lot of science peppered throughout, real facts and knowledge.
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