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Lucifer's Hammer

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I can only pray that later generations would carry it forward after conquering California and finding any intact libraries. In Policeman, narration is provided first person, and although many of the projected responses to impact are exactly the same in both books, experiencing it through one man’s journey is far more profound and moving. I still think that this novel was the best that either had written, even if I can't honestly say anything about Jerry's work.

Stereotypes, clichés, overwrought writing, and some real interesting ideas about race, men and women. The solar wind makes the comet's tail millions of miles long, always away from the Sun the giant comet composed of ice , gases and some rocks beautiful even magnificent to the sky watchers on Earth.It's like they figured, "If they've read this far, they're not going to stop now, so we can go all out and pull no punches with what we really think. Monumental devastation will sweep across the globe if the newly-discovered Hamner-Brown comet collides with the one major obstacle in its path: Earth. Niven and Pourelle's great characterizations make this a wonderfully compelling read, and one that is hard to put down.

Later the glaciers come down from the north freezing all nothing can stop these monsters, for the few survivors a new Ice Age too. I guess if the entire comet had hit it would just completely obliterate the Earth and these smaller impacts just wipe out civilization as we know it. About the only "prepared" survivors, good and bad, who don't have part of their initial schemes blow up in their faces are Senator Jellison and Dr.

Depopulation Bomb: The tidal waves caused by the initial cometary impact wipes out most of humanity.

Once the asteroid impacts, we get disaster scenes from even more characters, some of whom don’t live through it. The science of the comet, its formation in the distant Oort cloud, its orbit, its structure, its evolution as it accelerates towards the sun and the aftermath as the remnants race away from earth back into deep space, is touched upon but only in a cursory fashion.Fantastic Religious Weirdness: The Reverend Henry Armitage, former radio preacher and post-apocalyptic authentic whack-job, preaches against the evils of trying to rebuild a technological society rather than just accepting God's righteous punishment and allowing humanity to die. Like if you could just imagine that the characters in the band of cannibals are of all races, then the book immediately becomes top tier. I hate to be tough on narrators, but they can make or break a book with there talents or lack there of. I read this book shortly after it came out in paperback about 30 years ago, and remember enjoying it.

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