Lucifer's Hammer -- Larry Niven

<b>"The first satisfying end-of-the-world novel in years . . . an ultimate one . . . massively entertaining."--<i>Cleveland Plain-Dealer</i></b> <p/>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. <p/>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. . . . <p/><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><br><br><b>Author:</b> Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle<br><b>Publisher:</b> Del Rey Books<br><b>Published:</b> 05/12/1985<br><b>Pages:</b> 640<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.66lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.82h x 4.17w x 1.07d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780449208137<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Larry Niven</b> was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, California. In 1956, he entered the California Institute of Technology, only to flunk out a year and a half later after discovering a bookstore jammed with used science-fiction magazines. He graduated with a B.A. in mathematics (minor in psychology) from Washburn Universit