The other four books, including A Mote in God’s Eye and Lucifer’s Hammer, were all best sellers.įiery comet heading towards the Earth Lucifer’s Hammer (1977) Hardcover Paperback Kindle This is the fifth time Niven and Pournelle, who live just 8 miles from each other in Los Angeles, have collaborated on a science-fiction novel. And Niven did just that, with the aliens - called the “Fithp” - nearly conquering the Earth. “Niven can make an alien as dangerous as you like, and without putting fangs on him,” said Pournelle. Why elephants, as opposed to the usual bug-eyed monster? What makes this alien invasion unique is that the monsters are portrayed as looking like baby elephants. Just as the movie industry annually releases summer blockbuster films, the publishing industry has its own version of summertime madness.Īnd science-fiction fans this year are being offered a blockbuster called Footfall - a tale of an alien invasion authored by veteran science-fiction authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. “IT’S NO JOKE, ALIEN ELEPHANTS ARE A SCI-FI HIT” Soon all life on the planet will cease, leaving it ripe for repopulation.īUY FOOTFALL HERE FOOTFALL #1 New York Times Bestseller As the Demon Star sweeps toward its devastating apex, the slave masters flee the planet to await its annihilation in safety. Now, even as slaves, Earth’s transplanted warriors are locked in battle against each other. Subjects of the Shalnuksi slave masters, they are forced to harvest the priceless drug surinomaz. ![]() Kidnapped from Earth as they were about to die in battle, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries, like the other human slaves on the planet Tran, will not be missed. ![]() Force would not be Rick’s chosen method of persuasion, but on a planet where the other dominant culture is one brought straight from ancient Rome, force may be the only way. To create a safe society for themselves and the families they are gradually building, they need to do more than just survive they must convince the others that a unified, peaceful society is better than a collection of warring tribes. Rick has faced facts: this place is going to be home, permanently. They’d been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human – – but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected by flying saucer raids. Reluctantly volunteering for a dangerous mission, Captain Rick Galloway and his men are cut off in hostile territory when the CIA pulls out their support, an event that is further complicated when an alien spaceship arrives.įor the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. The Janissaries series of military and political-based science fiction novels are set in an interstellar confederation of races, in which humans are a slave race entrusted with military affairs and law enforcement. THE FINAL NOVEL BY LEGENDARY AUTHOR JERRY POURNELLE, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DAVID WEBER AND AUTHOR’S SON US NAVY COMMANDER PHILLIP POURNELLE (retired) ![]() Includes Storynight at the Stronghold, the long uncovered epilogue to LUCIFERS HAMMER.įind out what happened to Gil the Surfer. 15 great stories and essays edited by longtime collaborator John Carr.
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