Earth Abides
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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
Cover of the 1949 Random House first edition
George R. Stewart
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George Rippey Stewart Jr. 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 t
Earth Abides
…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…
Stewart's books about U.S. highways were based on his cross-country drives of 1924, 1949 and 1950.
Cover of the 1979 Oxford University Press paperback edition of American Given Names.