There's a period pall of sweaty paranoia and doom that gives the impact an almost cleansing feel. At times, the thrill of destruction and survival seems to totter into glee at the settling of scores. Feminism does not outlast the cataclysm, and it is not much missed.
Woolly-headed pinko environmentalists eat their enemies and each other, as do most of the book's black characters — a development with disturbing echoes, to say the least, of George Fitzhugh's antebellum tract Cannibals All!
The authors' main theme is that, comet or no, a civilization has the morality its machinery allows it to afford, and that saving the last nuclear power plant is worth a war if it avoids a return to serfdom and slavery. Pangs of survivor guilt and a nostalgia for lost niceties cut across the suspicion that some of the protagonists like the Hammer-scourged world a bit too much.
The sacrifice of the scientist who devotes his last winter to making poison gases for the power plant's protection, rather than insulin that would save his own life, is manipulative. But it is plausibly and effectively so. And the richer crops that grow where the gas pooled and corpses fell are a powerful symbol of good from ill. It is hard not to feel a sense of uplift as, on the last page, emblems of industry and trade — electricity, an IOU and, most beautifully, an aircraft's contrail — herald returning life and dignity.
He is author of Mapping Mars and Eating the Sun. You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar. See Editorial, page Reprints and Permissions. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in The story details a cometary impact on Earth, an end to civilization, and the battle for the future.
It encompasses the discovery of the comet, the LA social scene, and a cast of diverse characters whom fate seems to smile upon and allow to survive the massive cataclysm and the resulting tsunamis, plagues, famines and battles amongst scavengers and cannibals. Previews available in: English. Add another edition? Lucifer's Hammer. Donate this book to the Internet Archive library. If you own this book, you can mail it to our address below. Want to Read. Delete Note Save Note. Check nearby libraries Library.
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