Earth Abides
Author | : George R. Stewart |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1993-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0899683703 |
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Author | : George R. Stewart |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1993-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0899683703 |
Author | : George R. Stewart |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547593708 |
Soon to be an exciting series on MGM+! The award-winning Earth Abides is one of the most influential science fiction novels of all time, a mix of dystopian horror and a literary exploration of loneliness. It remains a fresh, provocative--and all too relevant--story of apocalyptic pandemic, societal collapse, and rebirth. Includes an introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson! “This is a book, mind you, that I'd place not only among the greatest science fiction but among our very best novels” – Boston Globe For Isherwood Williams, his cabin has always been a haven from the demands of society. But one day while hiking, Ish is bitten by a rattlesnake, and the solitude he had so desired takes on dire new significance. Because not long after, the coughing begins. Then the chills and fever and a measles-like rash. He thinks it’s a reaction to the bite. What he doesn’t know that the venom might be the only thing that kept him alive. For when Ish heads home the world is not as he left it. No cars pass, the gas station not far from his cabin looks abandoned, there’s nothing on the radio, and he is shocked to see the body of a man on the roadside near a small town. He has missed humanity’s abrupt demise, only to find himself at the center of society’s rebirth. This is a chance to start over, and as Ish gathers survivors to him, he discovers just how wondrous and terrible that proposition is. And when, decades later, he looks back on his legacy, he is only starting to understand the challenge between enlightenment and practicality. He had left one world, rejoined another, and now leaves—hopefully—an even different world behind. Because, reluctantly or no, his words and actions carry weight for the next generation, and Ish’s vision of the future may be one of prophecy…or doom.
Author | : George.R. Stewart |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-06-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473214335 |
In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life. A poignant novel about finding a new normal after the upheaval of a global crisis.
Author | : George R. Stewart |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681375184 |
A thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land. With Storm, first published in 1941, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots “an incipient little whorl” on the weather map, a developing storm, he suspects, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart’s novel tracks Maria’s progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists, linemen, snowplow operators, a general, a couple of decamping lovebirds, and an unlucky owl, and the storm, surging and ebbing, will bring long-needed rain, flooded roads, deep snows, accidents, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanity’s relationship to and dependence on the natural world.
Author | : Russell Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | : Orbit Books |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
ISBN | : 9781841494647 |
Battered and bruised, suffering grievous loss, the Company enters the great city of Instruere. They have to warn the Council of Faltha of the Destroyer's threat, and have no idea of the depth of treachery that awaits them. Bhudwo's tentacles go far deeper in to Faltha than any of the Company realises ... they find Instruere to be a city divided against itself, and the Watchers are nowhere to be found. Then the arrival of a disturbing stranger ignites the political and religious tensions in the city and events escalate beyond control. Only one thing could unite a land wracked with such mistrust. But can it be found? Or is the Jugom Ark merely a legend?
Author | : Donald M. Scott |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2012-09-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786467991 |
Best known for his 1949 post-apocalyptic thriller Earth Abides, George R. Stewart (1895-1980) spent a lifetime wandering the American landscape and writing books about its geography and history. An English professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the exceptional scholar-author penned some of the most remarkable literary works of the 20th century, inventing several types of books along the way--including the road-geography book, micro-history, place-name history, ecological history, and the ecological novel. By weaving human and natural sciences and history into his books Stewart created works with a multi-disciplinary perspective on events and places that influenced numerous other writers, artists, and scientists, including Stephen King, Greg Bear, and Page Stegner. This volume considers George R. Stewart's rich oeuvre while chronicling a life-long quest to uncover the deepest truths about the man and his work.
Author | : George R. Stewart |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0547525605 |
“Compulsive reading—a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of a horrifying episode in the history of the west.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers; an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.
Author | : John Christopher |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-05-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481420003 |
Includes an excerpt from another adventure by John Christopher entitled 'In the beginning.'
Author | : Susan Peabody |
Publisher | : Susan Peabody |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2013-04-12 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1620304945 |
Author | : Alan Weisman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780312427900 |
A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence