Author: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

My favorite disaster book of all time. There may be disaster novels out there that are better written, have more stuff happen, whatever...I just love this book.

Its the story of an asteroid heading toward Earth, and what happens before and after it arrives. As always, I love it when the story expands to the aftermath part. In this case, we get to see various methods of initial survival and then later, various means of rebuilding society.

Some things are now dated in the book, but it is still worth reading. There is a bit of goriness, but really not too much. Likeable characters, interesting tips on ways to survive, a political bent that is clearly focused on us staying in space and expanding the space program. And very good descriptions of what happens when an asteroid of a decent size hits the Earth.