Supernova

by Roger MacBride Allen, Eric Kotani

The millennium draws to a close. Nini light years from Earth, a white dwarf star dies a violent and spectacular deeath. Sirus B has gone supernova hurtling a nightmare of global devastation toward our unsuspecting planet at astonishing speed

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Roger MacBride Allen is a US science fiction author of the Corellian Trilogy, consisting of Ambush at Corellia, Assault at Selonia, and Showdown at Centerpoint. He was born on September 26, 1957 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He grew up in Washington D.C. and graduated from Boston University in 1979. The author of a dozen science-fiction novels, he lived in Washington D.C., for many years. In July 1994, he married Eleanre Fox, a member of the U.S. Foreign Service. Her current assignment takes them to Brasilia, Brazil, where they lived from 2007 to 2009.

Reviews

[Stroctoperry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a kinder, more optimistic, less libertarian Lucifer's Hammer. I had never heard of it or its authors, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it both interesting and entirely inoffensive.

It could have gone wrong in so many ways! I was on the edge of my seat the entire time! Glorify violence? No! Misogyny? No! Racism? No! Insensitive treatment of mental illness? Not terrible!

I can't speak to the astrophysics, but the portrayal of the process of science is realistic if slightly dramatic. But it's, you know, a story.