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Published: April 18, 2010
Words: 107,030 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458170507
Short description
When Spacewatch Director Henry Jackson suspects the largest asteroid in 65 million years will strike America in 2012, he must save a skeptical public from mile-high tsunamis, pressure blasts, sterilizing heat, record earthquakes, and a trillion tons of falling molten rock called regolith. Then he loses his escape plane, stranding his family near Ground Zero, where they must improvise to survive.Extended description
When Spacewatch Director Henry Jackson suspects the largest asteroid in 65 million years will strike America during the 2012 presidential campaign, he must figure out how to save a skeptical public from mile-high tsunamis, nuclear-like pressure blasts, record-breaking earthquakes, and a trillion tons of falling molten rock called regolith that will destroy billions of roofs and roads, sending civilization back centuries. Facing global hysteria that cripples society, he tries to evacuate millions to special asteroid shelters near the poles. Then Jackson -- famous for his plans to catapult capsules from the highest point on Earth, convert the biggest NEO into a space port, softland trillion-dollar metallic asteroids on the Moon, terraform Mars, and re-orbit our largest moons to increase the solar system's carrying capacity from 10 to 100 billion people -- then loses his escape plane just hours before impact, stranding his family near Ground Zero, where they must improvise to survive.Tags
mars, politics, science fiction, space, 2012, asteroid, disaster, arizonaAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
BookBabe
on Oct. 20, 2010 :
Great story! I love the description of the main body impact, but I was bummed Rance was murdered. Lots of interesting stuff about space.
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Review by:
Doug Pardee
on May 27, 2010 :
I try to give a book about 30 pages before I bail on it, but the writing style was so grating that I didn't even get 10 pages in. Dramatization is almost totally absent; instead we're 'treated' to a narrative flashback that goes on and on and on with the protagonist continually whining and agonizing about how rotten his life is... jeez, where's the *story*?
Maybe it gets better later in the book, but I'll never know. I wanted this loser of a protagonist to just kill himself and save us *both* the suffering.
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Review by:
bobpit
on May 07, 2010 :
Liberal trash. Not good enough to read even if I was paid.
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Review by:
David5643
on April 26, 2010 :
what a great story! It kept me up all night. Imagine knowing before anyone else that an asteroid that is suppose to miss us will actually hit, that you have just ten weeks to save as many people as possible, and that you have billions to spend. What would you do?
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