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Footfall

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle · 1985 · Novel

Setting: near future

Synopsis

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.

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Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Life on other planetsFictionScience fictionAmerican Science fictionExtraterrestrial beingsHuman-alien encountersNew York Times reviewedFiction, science fiction, generalScience Fiction - GeneralFiction / Science Fiction / General

isfdb_id: 1920

openlibrary_id: OL10587701W

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