NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE.--Tom Clancy 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 ...
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NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE.--Tom Clancy 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. ROUSING . . . THE BEST OF THE GENRE. --The New York Times Book Review
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OK, let me get this out of the way first; this book is about 500 pages long, and there are some folks who simply won't pick up a book that long, so this review is not for them. Also, it's science fiction - a story about an alien invasion of earth by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - and some folks won't read SF. And I'll admit it; the first 400 pages of this book, although interesting and fun, are basically there to set up the last 100 pages. BUT - if you read the book from the beginning and stick with it, the last 100 pages are TERRIFIC! I read about 100 books a year and I am in my 60's, so I have read a LOT of books; this book probably has the most exciting and satisfying ending of any of the thousands of books I have read. I sometimes re-read books that I really like; I have read this book straight through several times, and it's a fun read, but -even better - about once a year I get the book off the shelf and read just the last 100 pages. And I always get a kick out of it - man, these guys can write!!
