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12wonderY
feb 18, 2016, 4:56 pm

This may be a Larry Niven book, or along those lines.

Apocalyptic. Presents a cross-section of how people are preparing for doom (an astronomical event?) and how they fare during and afterwards. One character is an elderly scientist with an insulin habit. He attempts to save technological information by putting books in double plastic baggies and placing them in an old septic tank or cistern.

2mart1n
feb 18, 2016, 5:00 pm

Definitely Niven. I think it's Lucifer's Hammer, though it's many years since I read it.

3mart1n
feb 18, 2016, 5:10 pm

Confirmed - the character was based on the scientist Dan Alderson. His entry in Wikipedia mentions the novel and his diabetes.

42wonderY
feb 19, 2016, 9:07 am

Thanks so much!