Wormwood? NO..Lucifer's Hammer

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I have that book somewhere. A friend loaned it to me, just haven't read it yet.

Lucifers Hammer by Niven is a great read.
Starts of slowly, but after hammer fall, it gets really good, really quick.
A must for any survivalist.
CROW

I've read my copy til it's threadbare. It really gives a good idea of what to expect. It really helped me understand why & how to prepare.

Sounds good. What's it about? A disaster scenario? I love those.

One of the best comet disater books out on the market...Love the part about the surfer, watching the other surfers fall to the mess below, he sees the top of the wave and knows he is riding the wave of all time, and if he makes it up over the crest, he might have a chance of surviving...and then a 10 story building looms up like a fly swatter while he is cutting across the face of the wave 10 blocks inland...

Great book!

Oooooooo wow!!!! I gotta read that!!

"Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven in collobaration with another writer whose name I have forgotten, is a terrific end of the world type drama based on the Earth running through a horde of huge asteroids. The impacts in the ocean were especially well written, with walls of live steam holding back the twelve thousand feet of sea water around the incandescent point of the giant impacts, themselves miles across.

Tremendous waves flood the San Joaquin valley of California and turn it into a shallow epeiric sea, and they destroy coastal cities. The episode of the surfer is one of my favorites in the book; this guy is out paddling boards with his friends when an asteroid crosses the zenith and descends below the horizon, hundreds of miles away over the ocean. He senses his own death at that moment, but on beholding the grim shadow of the tidal wave his instincts raise him to his feet and he catches the greatest wave in history and rides it over Los Angeles. Over his head, miles above, the crest stands like a mountain range while far, far below there is a thundering surging continuous blast of rubble, foam and debris. His legs are in agony from riding that wave for so many minutes, when he spies a skyscraper in his path and knows he will not be able to avoid it.

A very good book.

NO doubt!!!

Surf's Up!!!



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