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Summary: The best disaster story ever written
Review: who would think that and alien invasion could go casatrophically right and yet the good old human race turns around and fighs back and wins. This book wasan icredable read and i would really like to know if larry will right another (similar sort of story- or a follow up) Anyway Larry Niven as usual shows us his grasp of dizzying mathematics and what he can do when his imagination mingles with that of Jerry Pournelle. I strongly recomend it to any sci-fi reader.
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Summary: A good summer read
Review: Footfall is journeyman science fiction, the sort of thing I would expect from a Niven-Pournelle collaboration. Not as good as Niven's Integral Trees or Ringworld, but the action moves along well enough, after a lumbering start to introduce a large cast of characters. Like a spacecraft launch, it starts slowly and builds momentum, racing to the finish. It's good enough that I would read a sequel (there were certainly enough loose ends at the end to lead to another book), but Footfall doesn't compare creatively or in the quality of writing with Octavia Butler's poetic and imaginative Xenogenesis quartet, which presents a very different alien conquest scenario. Written in 1985, Footfall's references to US/Soviet rivalries make it an unusually dated piece of SF. Formulaic, but good.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: This book is everything ID4 could have been, in a word, Realistic. Niven and Pournelle weave a complex tapestry of different people and there experiences with the 'Snouts', strange two trunked 'baby elephants'. One of the great things about this novel is that the aliens don't have some massive superweapon that we have to overcome. The ending is always in doubt, even up to the last few pages, I was on the 'Very' Edge of my seat. Reccomended!
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Summary: Story was intersting but ending was lacking.
Review: I though the story would be another version of Independence Day, but I was wrong. The story telling was very engrossing. The authors should have added at least another chapter. Can we say denouement?
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Summary: Great book - just don't read the last 3 pages!
Review: I almost gave this book a rating of 9 however the absolute stupidity of the last few pages dropped my liking of this book 5 whole points! The book is another great piece of work by P&N but they ran out of steam and just wrapped it up. I suggest reading the end of this "Alien Invasion - So humanity must save the eath" book alone, As I was unhappy that there were people around when I flung the book clear across the room. There was no need for me to scare people like that over a REALLY bad ending.
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Summary: Self-serving silliness
Review: A book in which Science Fiction writers save the world. Somehow, they know more about military technology than the military. Yeah, right. Every single thing the writers thought of turned out to be true and nobody but the writers understood what's going on. What an unbelievably self-important and self-indulgent premise for a book. Authors should make some effort to stay out of their own fiction unless they promise to maintain their objectivity. Well written, but deeply dissatisfying.
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Summary: This is a very shallow book, seems like written in a hurry
Review: Can't say it is a good book, when it isn't. Lucifer's Hammer was MUCH BETTER, like if written by some other author. This one is pushing slowly, nothing really happens, you know it all ahead, only perhaps the end is a little fun, but it is not unexpected. It is all so very unfinished, a lot of stuff happens, but is left open, perhaps they tried to do too much in too little space. It could be twice as long but who the hell would read it then. With one word: BORING !
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Summary: The ! BEST Aliens! invading! book! EVER!
Review: I love this book.
(I've read it so many times) 1985ish alien invasion. big ideas and realistic! solutions.If aliens hadv invaded hope they couldnt read. Reagan wouldv know what to do, get larry and co. to save the planet.Lets just hope when the day comes we use Orion, which has to be the coolest spaceship ever.Even the Challenger shuttle's there, what more do you need? Read this today
great ideas, planetary destruction, elephants with two trunks
"clasp digits with me so that i may know your herd" (or something like that)
stomp the snouts!
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Summary: The best science fiction novel since Lucifer's Hammer
Review: Written in 1985, at the height of the Reagan- Gorbachev era, Footfall goes back five years to the Voyager mission. It's about scientists and science fiction authors who get together with the military to repulse an invasion of two-trunked elephants called the Fithp. Like Starship Troopers, this book is about pulling together in a time of crisis. There's a reference to the cancelled NBC series "V" and there are scenes with the Orion starship and the shuttles Columbia and Challenger. Interesting since the Challenger blew up less than a year later.
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Summary: Classic hard SF. Must have.
Review: Awesome Niven and Pournelle, with humor, hard SF, human and alien psychology, love, adventure, everything. If you think this is another Indepenance Day, you shouldn't be reading books; go sit in front of the idiot box and drool. Several intertwined stories, with a backdrop of aliens attacking. A How-To of repulsing attackers when your only advantages are numbers and home court; why do you think USA lost the Korean and Vietnam "wars"? Similar to Fallen Angels, but not as fannish. Niven gives interesting "behind the scenes" material in N-Space. This book is a definite MUST; on par with Tolkien. (Sorry for rambling; I read this only a few months ago and still reread bits and smile.) Classic.
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