5/22/2023 0 Comments Footfall by Larry Niven![]() ![]() ![]() They’re a tribal species who resemble miniature elephants, with two trunks with dexterous appendages at the end of said trunks that allow them to build and control things. ![]() They’re aliens from the Alpha Centauri system, who have come to take over the Earth. The enemies here are not Soviets or Columbians or terrorists. But I digress.įootfall is science fiction, and really doesn’t have anything to do with Clancy. Red Storm Rising is one of my favorite Clancy books. I bring up Clancy’s name because a) he blurbs the book on the front cover of the edition I have, and b) because the approach to the plot (a half dozen separate plot lines that inevitably come together at the end), reminded my of Clancy’s Red Storm Rising, which wasn’t actually published until 1986. I’ve previously read a number of Niven / Pournelle books, including the science fiction classic Lucifer’s Hammer, and though I probably didn’t spend too much time examining the plot for Footfall, the idea looked interesting.įootfall was published in 1985, when the cold war was still frigid and Tom Clancy was just beginning to churn out the techno-thrillers and high concept plots that had the whole world teetering on the edge of destruction. ![]() I picked FootFall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle up at a used book store a couple of years ago. ![]()
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