Lucifers Hammer -1
Author: Larry Niven
The lucky ones went first…, , The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization., , But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was….Read More
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