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The book has light fading to the top and bottom of te cloth spine and the two rear outer corners are lightly bumped. His bestknown works are ringworld 1970, which received hugo, locus, ditmar, and nebula awards, and, with jerry pournelle, the mote in gods eye 1974 and lucifers hammer 1977. Lucifer s hammer spends exactly the right amount of time building toward the cataclysm, and then continues to grip the reader all the way through. He is the author of ten novels and has written for a wide range of publications, including a weekly column for the scottish sunday mail.
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