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Footfall
They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star.
The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods.
Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding servile surrender--or death for all humans.
The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods.
Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding servile surrender--or death for all humans.
524 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
About the author
Larry Niven
686 books3,386 followersLaurence van Cott Niven's best known work is Ringworld (Ringworld, #1) (1970), which received the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. The creation of thoroughly worked-out alien species, which are very different from humans both physically and mentally, is recognized as one of Niven's main strengths.
Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called Mana, to make the magic a non-renewable resource.
Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of twelve collection books, the Man-Kzin Wars. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. In fact, much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper, or Edward M. Lerner.
He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has since lived in Los Angeles suburbs, including Chatsworth and Tarzana, as a full-time writer. He married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, herself a well-known science fiction and Regency literature fan, on September 6, 1969.
Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Neutron Star in 1967. In 1972, for Inconstant Moon, and in 1975 for The Hole Man. In 1976, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Borderland of Sol.
Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early Kzin story The Soft Weapon. He adapted his story Inconstant Moon for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits in 1996.
He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/larryn...
Niven also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, which utilizes an exhaustible resource, called Mana, to make the magic a non-renewable resource.
Niven created an alien species, the Kzin, which were featured in a series of twelve collection books, the Man-Kzin Wars. He co-authored a number of novels with Jerry Pournelle. In fact, much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Brenda Cooper, or Edward M. Lerner.
He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has since lived in Los Angeles suburbs, including Chatsworth and Tarzana, as a full-time writer. He married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, herself a well-known science fiction and Regency literature fan, on September 6, 1969.
Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Neutron Star in 1967. In 1972, for Inconstant Moon, and in 1975 for The Hole Man. In 1976, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Borderland of Sol.
Niven has written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original Land of the Lost series and Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which he adapted his early Kzin story The Soft Weapon. He adapted his story Inconstant Moon for an episode of the television series The Outer Limits in 1996.
He has also written for the DC Comics character Green Lantern including in his stories hard science fiction concepts such as universal entropy and the redshift effect, which are unusual in comic books.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/larryn...
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February 8, 2022Hab das Buch nach 230 Seiten abgebrochen.
Ich weiß es ist schon über 30 Jahre alt, und für mich leider nicht besonders gut gealtert.
Die Charaktere waren mir allesamt nicht wirklich sympathisch und alle, die keine alten weißen Männer sind, werden nicht besonders nett dargestellt. Die weiblichen Figuren gehen fremd oder rennen irgendwelchen Dudes hinterher und der einzige nichtweiße Charakter wird die meiste Zeit nur "der Schwarze" oder "der Nigerianer" genannt. Just use his name like you do with every other character, goddammit...
Wie gesagt, das Buch ist zwar schon älter aber mir hat es leider doch ziemlich die Freude beim Lesen verdorben.
Auch die Story konnte mich nach über 200 Seiten noch nicht wirklich fesseln, da breche ich angesichts der noch folgenden 500 Seiten doch lieber ab.
Ich weiß es ist schon über 30 Jahre alt, und für mich leider nicht besonders gut gealtert.
Die Charaktere waren mir allesamt nicht wirklich sympathisch und alle, die keine alten weißen Männer sind, werden nicht besonders nett dargestellt. Die weiblichen Figuren gehen fremd oder rennen irgendwelchen Dudes hinterher und der einzige nichtweiße Charakter wird die meiste Zeit nur "der Schwarze" oder "der Nigerianer" genannt. Just use his name like you do with every other character, goddammit...
Wie gesagt, das Buch ist zwar schon älter aber mir hat es leider doch ziemlich die Freude beim Lesen verdorben.
Auch die Story konnte mich nach über 200 Seiten noch nicht wirklich fesseln, da breche ich angesichts der noch folgenden 500 Seiten doch lieber ab.
September 9, 2024
Es ist also doch möglich, einen nicht nur guten, sondern sogar großartigen Roman über einen Angriff von Aliens auf die Erde zu schreiben. Meistens läuft es ja so ab: ungeheuer fortschrittliche (und bösartige) Aliens greifen an, stellen sich aber dabei so dämlich an, dass es den Menschen leicht fällt, sie zu besiegen. Nicht so bei diesem Roman, deshalb eine unbedingte Leseempfehlung .
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