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Shiva Descending (Mass Market Paperback)

de William Rotsler (Author), Gregory Benford (Author) "It had traveled through the silent void for countless millennia, since the formation of the solar system ..." En savoir plus
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The first strikes destroyed Cleveland, Tunis, and parts of Alaska, Canada, and Australia. That was barely the beginning. The swarm-- a cloud of meteors and asteroids 50,000 miles across--was coming. Hundred of missiles put Earth under siege forcing the world in a panicked hell of anarchy and catastrophe. Riots and orgies rampaged in the rubble. And worse waited. Because at the swarm's heart was Shiva--a 30 billion-ton comet set to hit earth with the force of 250,000 H-bombs. The impact would turn seas into vapor and mountains into dust. pray, scream, get drunk, or run amok--but no one could escape it. No one could survive it. And no one could stop it.


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With a massive comet bearing down on earth, the citizens of earth run amok convinced that their is no hope for survival. Reissue.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 A must for science fiction fans, Juil 18 2004
Par Victoria (Honolulu, Hawaii) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Very gritty and realistic. Huge asteroid is about to hit Earth and various nations in the world attempt to stop it. Of course, there are plenty nutcases and religious zealots who are sabotaging NASA. I guarantee, that if something like this actually happens there will be plenty of idiots like this crawling out the woodwork. Overall, I enjoyed the book but Jack McDevitt is still my favorite.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 A good book about the coming of the end, Jui 22 2004
Par M. E. Newell (Marietta, Georgia, United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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"Shiva Descending" by Grergory Benford & William Rosler is the classic story of an asteriod hitting the earth. On one side, you have NASA with the help space agencies from around the world trying to stop Shiva. On the other side, the effect of the coming doom have sent the avarage person over the edge.
This book was pretty good, but the book was dated and it seem slow in places. Another problem I had that the reader didn't really have a time frame for the book and at time that really bug me. A fan of the "End of the world" genre will enjoy it.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Excellent. Entertaining., Jui 5 2003
Par JLM (Fairfax Station, VA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Thoroughly enjoyed this book! The characters are well developed, the science is good and it is well written. A mountain size meteor is approaching Earth, and Earth has one shot, actually two, to try and do something about it. The story goes at length into how different countries and cultures deal with the situation and how US politics and world religions (both old and newly formed as a result of the impending doom) address the crisis. There is the usual love interest, as well as competition amongst the astronauts involved. The science is solid and interestingly presented through various characters. One cannot help but draw comparisions to Deep Impact and Armageddon, this story is far superior to either of those two. The book is only a little dated because it draws upon the US/Russia mistrust, space competition and nuclear weapons... but that does not detract from its enjoyment.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Somewhat uneven, but it certainly has it's moments
3 and 1/2 stars actually. "Shiva Descending" gets high marks as a book far ahead of its time as far as meteoric "space disasters" are concerned. Read more
Publié le Oct. 24 2002 par coachtim

4.0étoiles sur 5 Flying Mountain
"Shiva Descending" is the genesis of movies, "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" --- a huge, mountain-sized asteroid is going to enter the earth's orbit and destroy the planet. Read more
Publié le Fév 19 2002 par sweetmolly

5.0étoiles sur 5 A Powerful Message
Realistic science. Even more realistic pandemonium. A classic example of the growing gap of quality between SciFi books and movies. Read more
Publié le Aoû 3 2001 par The Gray Mouser

5.0étoiles sur 5 I think the movie "Armageddon" takes ideas from this book.
"Armageddon" is very good. However, if you had read this book first and watched the movie second, you will be never satisfied, because the movie got a little cheaper... Read more
Publié le Juil 10 1998 par kwatanab@indiana.edu

3.0étoiles sur 5 Overkill the hallmark of "Shiva Descending"
The rock-hitting-earth genre hit, quite literally, an all-time high in Shiva Descending. It seems that no city on the face of the earth is spared from the numerous smaller... Read more
Publié le Mars 16 1998 par Claxton Graham (claxton.graham...

4.0étoiles sur 5 GOOD if you like "rocks" hitting the Earth (and Hard SF too)
Beetween "Lucifer's Hammer" and "The Hammer of God", Benford's is better. You have to read it to the end, to see what happens. Read more
Publié le Sep 17 1997

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