Lucifer's Hammer

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Opposing our Brave Heroes is a diverse rampaging army made up of (I kid you not): Trade Unionists (damn commies!

The characters seem like cardboard sterotypes, placed on the event (the black, white, indians, female, smart, poor, rich, crazy and powerful) and everyone had "coupling" on the brain.Early Niven/Pournelle collaboration about the physical and social aftermath of a giant meteor slamming into the Earth. Niven and Pournelle originally pitched the story to publishers as an alien invasion story in which the aliens drop a comet onto Earth after humanity fights them. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The Soviets are also aware that an impact will lead to an ice age and are thus not completely surprised by the attack, immediately using their own Nuclear Option and dropping their entire Cold War arsenal on China.

If the outer sentry raises both hands over his head, this is the signal for the inner sentry to shoot the person at the gate, presumably because that is the one gesture least likely to get you killed if someone is pointing a gun at you. Although using the perspective of many allows for the reader to understand the largeness of the scope of disaster, it makes emotional connection with any one character almost impossible. If I had raised my bridle-hand, as I have held it low, The little jackals that flee so fast were feasting all in a row.So he wrote Lucifer's Hammer about a comet and took the alien part of it and wrote a totally separate and unrelated novel, Footfall. Sharps alleges that the Soviets are planning a comet mission and Jellison is able to scare up funding for a U.

He adapted his story Inconstant Moon for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits in 1996. Really hard for me to rate this book because what it does well is great except for the one glaring flaw that punches you in the face. It felt a little disjointed early on, not knowing why certain characters were being introduced and I did feel that possibly a little too much time was spent on the giving some of the less important characters backstory that didn't really seem to matter that much. They attack, but Jellison's outnumbered forces defeat them with the help of mustard gas and other weapons produced by Forrester. LUCIFER'S HAMMER is Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's graphic but frighteningly realistic vision of humanity's descent into anarchy and chaos and its struggle to re-establish a semblance of normality after an apocalyptic event devastates the world with inconceivable damage and death but does not actually push humanity over the brink of extinction - hoarding; heroism; brutality; the potential change in attitudes towards sex, sexuality, racism, marriage, religion and love; the evolution (or devolution) of government from democracy into potential more effective alternatives under the circumstances; the re-establishment of innovation and technological expertise; the potentially changing roles of women in a more basic almost feudally structured society; and, of course much more.

I'm a Humanitarian: They started doing it just because they were starving and there was nothing else to eat, but eventually the New Brotherhood starts using forced cannibalism as an Initiation Ceremony. 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. The experiential timeline is compressed, and within a relatively short amount of time, a section of the population is reduced to cannibalism. Later becomes a love square when Maureen’s longtime lover, astronaut John Baker, enters the picture.

Taking You with Me also applies to the same scene: "At the Academy, they taught us there was one sure way not to miss. Jellison's people are reluctant to send it, as the greatly weakened New Brotherhood no longer poses a threat to the Stronghold, but astronaut Rick Delanty gives them a stark choice: remain safe, though their descendants will be peasants, or attack and wipe out the New Brotherhood, and use the electric power to rebuild civilization.His job lets him learn enough about the comet to understand how much damage it might cause, while his lack of scientific expertise keeps him from realizing that there's a strong chance it won't hit (which is why the scientists are caught unprepared).