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Book Review of Lucifer's Hammer

Lucifer's Hammer
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Probably one of the top ten novels in apocalypse fiction. Lots of build-up to the actual crisis and then a convincing description of the confusion and struggle to get to a place of safety. I don't buy the cannibal army - why do books like this always insist on a cannibal army? - but the rest of it is pretty good. Reading it in 2017, I'm okay with it being so dated in terms of technology but the racist/sexist attitudes make me wince a little.