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Footfall

  • Jerry Pournelle,
  • Larry Niven

3.94

17 ratings

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.

Genres

  • Life on other planets
  • Fiction
  • Science fiction
  • American Science fiction
  • Extraterrestrial beings
  • Human-alien encounters
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Science fiction, American
  • Fiction, general
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About the authors

  • Jerry Pournelle

    1933 - 2017

    3.72

    137 ratings · 126 works

  • Larry Niven

    born April 30, 1938

    3.81

    472 ratings · 240 works

Editions

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    Sphere

    1986

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    Rei edition

    Del Rey

    April 12, 1986

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Del Rey

June 23, 1997

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    1st ed.

    Ballantine Books

    1985

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    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    1988

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    1st ed edition

    Del Rey

    May 12, 1985

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    Del Rey

    1985

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    Time Warner Books UK

    October 1, 1990

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    Orbit

    1988

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    [Book Club ed.]

    Ballantine Books

    1985

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    Gollancz, Del Rey Books, Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    1985