![]() We don’t get a really detailed look at the Orion-style spaceship Michael. ![]() Most of it occurs off stage as does the combat in Kansas and its eventual nuking. Nor do we get, a lá Niven and Pournelle’s Lucifer’s Hammer, neat description of meteor devastation. ![]() Thus the Fithp aren’t too bright or, at least, don’t think of any other option than to invade a planet instead of exploiting space.īut we don’t learn anything more about the Predecessors, really get into the dissension in the Fithp ranks, or learn a lot that much about the Fithp given the time spent on them other than they are herd animals who are used to fighting until a foe unconditionally surrenders for their whole herd. Niven and Pournelle provide an interesting rationale while the alien Fithp try to invade Earth: they’re a young race who acquired space travel from the Predecessors, aliens who first evolved intelligence on the Fithp homeworld and then destroyed themselves. Next to Fallen Angels, co-written with Michael Flynn, this is the worst Niven and Pournelle novel I’ve read. I found this novel overly long for its subject but not long enough to get into any pleasing, interesting detail. ![]() Raw Feed (1998): Footfall, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, 1985. ![]() This one is another collaboration with Larry Niven and another review probably colored by the circumstances I read a book under. ![]()
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