Footfall

495 pages

English language

Published Aug. 13, 1985 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
978-0-345-32347-7
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Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the solar system from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.

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reviewed Footfall by Larry Niven

Footfall: A solid, workmanlike alien-invasion & disaster novel

4 stars

A large and well-written novel about an alien invasion and planetary catastrophe. Not top-notch Niven, and his tendency to use confusing polysyllabic alien names gets to be a bit much (as it often does in his work), but it's an exciting and interesting book with sympathetic characters and a well-handled plot.

It does end rather abruptly, though. I liked it better after the third or fourth re-reading.

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