“Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four p...”
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<b>“The first satisfying end-of-the-world novel in years . . . an ultimate one . . . massively entertaining.”—<i>Cleveland Plain-Dealer</i></b><br><br>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. <br><br>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. . . .<br><br><b>“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 <i>Lucifer’s Hammer</i> for sweaty-palmed suspense.”—<i>Chicago Daily News</i></b>
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Larry Niven
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