This post may contain spoilers for Lucifer's Hammer, so be forewarned.
Or it may not, or you may not care. Your choice.
;-)
From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Author question Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:19:22 -0500
At 04:01 PM 8/11/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Author question Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:42:49 -0500
At 12:23 PM 8/11/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:From: "G. D. Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Author question Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:30:50 +0900
Awhile back I picked up a book out of the Exchange bargain bin by Sarah Zettel, "The Quiet Invasion." It is still in pile of to read books. Has any one read anything by her. Worth the effort?
Just finished reading "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven again. Still, IMO,
the best end-of-the-world book ever.
Arrrrgh!
By horrifying coincidence, I'm 100 pages into Lucifer's Hammer, which I've never read before. Could we PLEASE refrain from discussing how books END(!!!) without some sort of warning?
You had no idea what it was about before you started reading it?
No. It's a hardcover book without a jacket that was on a friend's shelf.
Okay. But, although admittedly there's a lot of threads with a lot of characters near the beginning, by page 100 you almost certainly have _some_ idea of what's going to happen . . .
Yeah, cometary near-miss or impact. I can think of a dozen scenarios that involve a cometary near-miss (which is still thought extremely likely at this point in the novel) or a minor impact that don't involve killing off everyone on the planet.
Note that "end of the world" is sometimes used to mean "end of the world as we know it", or something like that. After all, there's really not that much you can say if you kill off everyone on the planet (assuming a lack of more advanced space travel than we currently have) . . .
Out of curiosity, did you read all three (four) Lord of the Rings books?
Once or twice. Or ten or twelve times.
(I assume from your count of the books you are not asking about the _Silmarillion_, the various volumes of the History of ME, etc. . . ?)
-- Ronn! :)
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