Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [1983 PAPERBACK]

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle 

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1983] BALLANTINE / FAWCETT CREST

1st mass market Ballantine printing.

Book is in excellent condition.   General shelf and edge wear to cover; a few scuffs on back.  Reads like new. 

THE LUCKY ONES WENT FIRST…

The gigantic comet has 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 also the dawn of a new struggle for survival—a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known….