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Lucifer’s Hammer

by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

494 pages · 1977

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Where will you be when the comet strikes? It is 10:30 on a summer Tuesday morning. The Hamner-Brown comet, dubbed by the press as "Lucifer's Hammer", is due to strike earth within a few minutes.

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