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- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
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They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods. Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding servile surrender - or death for all humans.
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- Flatlander
- 06-24-10
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle at Their Best
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have written a lot of books together, but for me this is their best! Footfall is a story that takes place in the 1980s when a hostile alien spaceship visits the earth; where dominating U.S. and Russian governments distrust each other. Larry and Jerry give you insight to the inner workings of U.S. and Russian governments as they prepare for this first alien encounter and possible war with each other. They also give you insight to the Aliens plans and politics as they make their approach Earth. I find Footfall to be one of the more believable stories that concerns first Alien contact with earth and how the people of Earth would react. For those Larry Niven fans; Footfall is OLD Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelleat their VERY best.
The narration of Footfall by Macleod Andrews is great. I first listened to Macleod listening to Sandman Slim and later purchased The Lock Artist; just to hear Macleod again. I was happy to hear Macleod on this recording of Footfall.
Footfall is hard science fiction at its best.
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- Christopher
- 09-14-10
My favorite sci-fi book
Classic Alien Invasion of Earth. It doesn't get much better. It was written 25 years ago, but nonetheless doesn't seem dated. Some reviewers disliked the narrator's performance and pronunciation of alien names and dialog. I can't DISAGREE more! Ok, a few sentences I rewound the recording to listen again, but maybe 2 or 3 times during the entire book. The narrator essentially read the names and dialog exactly the way I'd pictured it when I read the book years ago. I recommend this, I recommend Niven and Pournelle's "The Mote in God's Eye," and I also recommend another great alien invasion/first contact story: Michael Flynn's "Eifelheim." Not sure which is my favorite sci-fi book of all time: Footfall or Eifelheim.
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- DJM
- 07-17-10
A Keeper
Based on reviews so far, it looks like this is going to be one of those audios that you either love or hate. I love this book and this audio. In fact, I just finished reading it for the sixth or seventh time earlier this year and still purchased it on audio. I wasn't disappointed. It is classic Niven and Pournelle, and, I think, their best. It has an intelligent, engaging story line populated by believable characters. I don't find it to be a right wing rant. I do hear these two SF writers speaking with frustration over what happened to the space program after Apollo. I disagree with their love for nuclear plants, but none of that detracts from the story line. And, it has one of the best space battle scenes ever written.
As for the narration, I thought it was excellent. I had no trouble understanding it and I'm frankly amazed that they found a reader willing to take it on. The invaders' names are bad enough: Pastempeh-Keph, Fathisteh-tulk, K'turfookrph etc. There are around twenty of those characters. But there is also the invaders' language that is sprinkled liberally through-out the novel which is just as tongue twisting. Then there are at least 30 important human characters, as well as a cast of twenty or so more. In some scenes, the narrator has to try and differentiate conversations among a group of ten or twelve humans, adult and children, men and women, as well as several male and female aliens. I'm willing to give him a pass if he has a problem making each voice in the scene distinctive enough.
I heartily recommend this audio version to those who love the book and to those who have never sampled it before. This is one I know I'll listen to again.
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- Charles
- 01-12-11
Fantastic work. Must listen, and about Andrews...
... Most of the complaints about this reading seem to focus on Andrews' reading of the books. Personally, I found the reading very well done. I like to get a sense of the different characters, and I found Andrews did a fantastic job of this. Some complained about the accents of the Aliens or the Russians, but I really found it well done, if only a bit over the top. It helped me keep the relatively long cast separate. On to the book.
I really enjoyed two of Niven/Pournelle's other famous works - Ringworld and the Mote in God's Eye. Particularly in the case of Mote, I enjoyed having some real *alien* aliens. The guys do a great job again in the case of Footfall. The aliens feel pretty fleshed out, and have a reasonably detailed culture.
The humans are a bit more one dimensional, but still interesting. Again, the cast is pretty large, and in the beginnings of the book it's a bit difficult to keep them straight, but they all end up meshing well, and serving to add interest and richness to the story.
Anyway, interesting book, and worth a shot. If you really like the performance aspect of the reading, than likely the reader won't bug you. If you prefer a more straight reading, then I'd probably check out something else.
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- Hooga Chacka
- 11-10-12
This is my all time favorite book.
Niven and Pournelle are a dream team. They should really work together more. And Footfall should be made into a four part miniseries.
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- DocJim
- 10-22-12
A masterful work from 1986 now on audio!
In 1986, or a year or two later, I read this book. I loved it then. But life goes on and even the title escaped my memory. I started listening to it, and low and behold some parts were familiar and other parts forgotten.
The story is timeless, even though it was written in the time of the USSR. I enjoyed it so much I must admit I stayed up WAY too late listening to the book. It is a long book (three parts of 8+ hours, or 24 hours of listening) and it can be hard to just quit listening.
The ending is dramatic and satisfactory. It must be hard for two Sci-Fi greats as Niven and Pournelle to cooperate on such a project, but is was a grand project very well done.
And it is a BARGAIN. 24hrs of listening for one credit! If you like Sci-Fi, this is one you should not miss. 35 years old and still a fantastic read - an ultimate classic.
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- David
- 07-09-10
classic Sci Fi
Larry and Jerry built a believable alien race and a believable human reaction to them. Well written and well read
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- Daniel
- 08-04-11
Tedious and disorganized
Footfall was one of the most tedious science fiction book I've ever read... or listened to in this case. The book had way too many "main" characters, most of whom had no bearing on the outcome of the book. Some seemed completely pointless. The alien names were unnecessarily complex and having a section of the book describing their language and its construction seemed self indulgent (of the authors) and tedious.
The book suffered from uninteresting characters, a lack of coherent story line, pointless dialogue, and unbelievable events. The premise was interesting (alien invasion), but the execution was poor, with the book jumping from place to place for seemingly no reason... certainly not to advance the plot.
I give it two stars only because the narrator of the audio book (MacLeod Andrews) was simply spectacular. The man deserves a medal for pulling off the bizarre pronunciations and for making the aliens' speech very distinctive from the humans. His narration was the reason I was able to suffer through the book to the (disappointing) ending.
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- Frank F. Sommers IV
- 08-17-19
Wordy, Wooden and Weak
Good idea, but way too long in development.
and Niven's names, Lord God, his names...!
(Difficult enough to read see e.g. Ringworld and it's progeny) but to listen to on tape-'shoot me before I kill again.'
not worth the time to hear, nor the powder to blow it to Hell. (and I'm a huge Niven fan. Read all the books multiple times, except this one. Gag me.)
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- Vicki Perizzolo
- 02-17-19
Footfall
I've been waiting for this one to come home to Audible. It was not available until recently. I loved this one when it came out and still do. Great story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-26-21
Not their best, by a long way.
Having written both individually and together, some of the best books and stories I have ever read, I was expecting the usual great things from this. Sadly though, it was difficult to believe Niven and Pournelle were actually responsible for this.
The stereotypical USA is amazing and the Russians can't be trusted was so overplayed it was nauseating. Could also have been half the length as so much of it served no purpose whatsoever. The main characters were all one dimensional or never developed at all and I would not have cared had they all been killed off in short order. I kept listening in the hope that as it was written by Niven & Pournelle it would get better. It turned out to be a wait in vain. Doesn't put me off either author though as I know whatever I haven't yet read from either of them is going to be excellent as they got all the bad stuff out in one go with this.
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- David, Derbyshire
- 09-13-17
Amazing Narration
The story was good, some characterisation was a little dated but the narration was amazing!
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- S. J. ATTWOOD
- 06-10-16
One of the better First Contact novels
Had the book, lost it. . found this. . Great story by these guys together with The Mote in God's eye they nailed it.
Apart from some dodgy Russian accents and the women all sounding a bit. . weak. . Its a great listen. .
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- John
- 07-01-11
An effort to understand!
I was recommended this book to read but decided to get it from Audible, as I was doing some long road journeys and it would be most convenient to listen to it on my iPhone, however the narrator has used a very heavy accent, which makes listening in a car very hard work - I frequently had to rewind to understand the story.
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- Bruce
- 08-06-21
very good
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-18-21
A Classic SF masterwork
One of the best first contact stories with a very realistic depiction of an alien society. The female characters are a bit wimpy (which is sexist by today's standards), but was fairly common at the time the original book was written - at about the time when women's lib was beginning to take off. I am old enough to remember the bad old times. Excellent narration.
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- EPS
- 05-21-21
Poor quality narration
The great storyline was let down by the narrators terrible accents. Consequently I only managed to listen to half of the book before I could stand the accents no mor!
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- Andy
- 12-31-20
always loved this
read it years ago and always found it memorable. the performance was good, the listing was a bit irritating, but that's aliens for you.
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- A J MCGARRY
- 12-05-18
Great book great narration
always liked this book, now listened to it as an audio story, still really engaging where characters matter and the story of desperate plight of human kind is brilliant.
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- Mr. M. J. Foster
- 05-02-17
Loved it. Took me back to my youth.
A dated backdrop, but still an excellent space yarn. A very good speaker too. recommended.
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- Bruce
- 08-18-18
Footfall
Brilliant ScFi at its best .Nobody write about Aliens like Niven and Pournelle the best .
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- Anonymous User
- 04-13-21
Better every time
I never tire of reading or listening to footfall this is the 4 th time
A great story