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From: tmh@ihldt.UUCP (Tom Harris)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: re:Lucifer's Hammer
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Date: Thu, 22-Dec-83 09:44:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 22 09:44:47 1983
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I really had some problems with Lucifer's Hammer.  It was alright,
except the diaster was only bad news if you lived on the seacoast
or happened to be standing under one of the rocks.  The story is 
told from the point of people in L.A. so they are pretty well
wiped out by a tidal wave, but from the things they were saying
most of the Midwest would have survived alright.  There was
another depressing theme running throughout the book and that was
that given any opportunity the U.S. as a country would break up.
It was also sort of bad that both Russia and China launched
their Nuclear Warheads at each other and there is no effect on the
characters in this country.  I have been a fan of both authors
works and the Mote in God's eye was definately a superior book,
but this one was a disappointment.

					Tom Harris