Impact Events in Fiction

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Ringworld, Armageddon, Rendezvous with Rama, The Dig, The Mote in God's Eye, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tunguska event in popular culture, Loonatics Unleashed, The Peshawar Lancers, Project A-ko, Starship Troopers, Remnants, Metal Armor Dragonar, The Time Machine, Tank Girl, The Last Train, Highlander: The Animated Series, Deep Impact, The Colour Out of Space, Off on a Comet, The Shooting Star, Outpost 2, The Paradise Syndrome, Without Warning, Footfall, When Worlds Collide, Children of the Lens, Bart's Comet, Protector, The Green Slime, Meteor, Titan, Thunderstone, A World Out of Time, Birth of an Age, In the Days of the Comet, After Worlds Collide, Life As We Knew It, In the Ocean of Night, Post Impact, The Dead and the Gone, Lucifer's Hammer, The Light of Other Days, Asteroid, Evolution, The Hammer of God, Shikari in Galveston, Primal Rage II, Sunstorm, Green Lantern, The Invisible Ray, Meteor Apocalypse, Superman: Last Son of Earth, Wormwood, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, Super Comet: After The Impact, The Last Disaster. Excerpt: The Mote in God's Eye is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, first published in 1974. The story is set in the distant future of Pournelle's CoDominium universe, and charts the first contact between humanity and an alien species. The title of the novel is a wordplay on Luke 6:41-42 and Matthew 7:3-5. The Mote in God's Eye was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards in 1975. Robert A. Heinlein, who gave the authors extensive advice on the novel, blurbed the story as "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." The book describes a complex alien civilization, the Moties. The Moties are radically different (both physically and psychologically) from humanity in ways that become more clear over the course of the book. T...