Footfall

by Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven

Footfall by Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven was a finalist or poll selection for the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

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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The full award history.

Finalist, 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel · Source ↗

Locus poll selection, 1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel · Source ↗