![]() | Deep Impact
Buy used from: $1.30 Preposterously schmaltzy. Only worth watching for the special effects.
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![]() | The Aftermath: A Novel of Survival by Samuel C. Florman
Buy used from: $0.29 Laregly a practical how-to guide of what could be done after an asteroid strike. The fictional, story-elements seem kind of tacked on, which is fine by me.
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![]() | Neptune Crossing (The Chaos Chronicles, Vol 1) by Jeffrey A. Carver
Buy used from: $0.01 Considered to have a decent base in science, by some astronomers.
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![]() | Double Planet by John Gribbin
Buy used from: $0.01 Fiction, but written by actual scientists.
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![]() | Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.13 Excellent science, comprehensive sociological vision, and more. But be warned -- a lot of people feel that there's some serious racism here.
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![]() | Armageddon: The Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $4.65 Kind of takes a "Seven Samurai" approach to dealing with asteroids. Fun, but total fluff.
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![]() | Tycus
Buy used from: $4.87 Singularly lame.
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![]() | Meteor
Buy used from: $5.20 People seem to overlook this 1979 film, but it's not bad.
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![]() | Asteroid
Buy used from: $66.94 Low budget, but when you think about it, it's more solid than "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" combined. Stars Michael Biehn, best known as the good guy in "The Terminator."
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![]() | Shiva Descending by Gregory Benford
Buy used from: $0.01 Not relaxing. Total, unmitigated planetary anarchy.
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![]() | The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Asteroid threatens to strike Earth in the 2100s. Not relaxing.
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![]() | The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.40 An "alternate Earth," in which the northern hemisphere got majorly whaled upon by asteroids in 1878. An appendix at the end has stuff relevant to this list.
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![]() | Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Not completely devoted to this subject, but includes a speculative description of an asteroid strike in northern Italy, in the near future.
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![]() | The Mayflower Project (Remnants, No 1) by Katherine A. Applegate
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 Completely unrelaxing story about an asteroid walloping the Earth.
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![]() | Thunderstrike! by Michael McCollum
A comet heading toward the Earth... I think you can see what's coming next.
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![]() | Asteroid Alert (2050 Voyage of the Starseeker) by Elaine Raphael
Buy used from: $0.01 Asteroid impact book for younger kids.
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![]() | Judgment Day
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $0.75 Kind of a B-movie, but hey, anything that gets you thinking. If you enjoy this, look for my "listmania" list of NON-fiction about asteroids.
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![]() | Farside Cannon by Roger MacBride Allen
Buy used from: $0.01 Not fantastic, but you have to give the author credit for trying to raise awareness of the topic, before it was such a cottage industry.
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![]() | A torrent of faces by James Blish
Buy used from: $1.95 In the year 2794, an overpopulated Earth learns that an asteroid is on a collision course.
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![]() | Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Fun, interesting science fiction idea. An alien lands and reveals that at the moment of the dinosaur extinction, many other planets in the galaxy ALSO suffered mass extinctions.
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![]() | Evolution
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.71 An absolutely ridiculous movie, but it does feature a large metor impact.
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