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Earth Abides

George Rippey Stewart

  • 368 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1949
  • 32 editions
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1 About this book

Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools. Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains only to discover that almost everyone has died.

Earth Abides won the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was included in Locus magazine's list of best All Time Science Fiction in 1987 and 1998 and was a nominee to be entered into the Prometheus Hall of Fame some time before 2002.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: science fiction and a survival story.

  • Science fiction
  • Sociology
  • Survival skills
  • Survival
  • Disasters
  • Plague

2 About George Rippey Stewart

1895–1980

George Rippey Stewart Jr. (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His 1959 book Pickett's Charge, a detailed history of the final attack at the Battle of Gettysburg, was termed "essential for an understanding of the Battle of Gettysburg". His 1949 post-apocalyptic novel Earth Abides won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951.

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