Category
page 1Novels about impact events
Rendezvous with Rama
1973 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
Off on a Comet
novel by Jules Verne
Ringworld
Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his companions on a mission to the Ringworld, an enormous rotating ring, an alien construct in space in diameter. Niven later wrote three sequel novels and then cowrote, with Edward M. Lerner, four prequels and a final sequel; the five latter novels constitute the Fleet of Worlds series. All the novels in the Ringworld series tie into numerous other books set in Known Space. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in
Comet in Moominland
book by Tove Jansson
In the Days of the Comet
1906 novel by H. G. Wells
The Hammer of God
1993 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
Lucifer's Hammer
1977 novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
When Worlds Collide
1933 novel co-written by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer
Footfall
Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
Protector
1973 novel by Larry Niven
Sunstorm
novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
In the Ocean of Night
1977 novel by Gregory Benford