Lucifer's hammer - Larry Niven

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The trade paper re-launch of a classic sci-fi bestseller from the authors of the acclaimed alien invasion epic Footfall.

For millionaire Tim Hamner, the comet he helped discover is a ticket to immortality.

For filmmaker Harvey Randall, it's a chance to redeem a flagging career.

And for astronauts John Baker and Rick Delanty, it's a second chance for glory in outer space.

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.