Footfall
Publication date:
1985-05
Publication type:
Novel
Published:
Del Rey (Ballantine), May 1985. Cloth. Michael Whelan cover
Opus No.:
155
Setting:
Stand Alone
ISBN:
1-85723-097-3
Characters:
Fithp;
Wade Curtis;
Nat Reynolds
Awards:
Hugo nominee
Summary:
The aliens have arrived and they're not pretty... They may look like baby elephants but much they are much more intelligent and deadly, and armed with advanced (borrowed) technology, they soon have the Earth pretty much under their control.
A desperate attack on the aliens mother ship has only the slimmest chance of succeeding.
The character of Harry Reddington is based on the Late Frank Gasperik. The book also features several other familiar folks, in different guises.
Notes:
Collaboration, co-written with Jerry Pournelle
Reprints:
cloth, Victor Collancz Co., 1985;
British editions: Sphere, paper, September 1986;
Orbit, paper, August 1991;
Bra Spanning, as Invasion;
SFBC, hardbound, December 1985.