Earth abides book6/4/2023 ![]() Earth Abides is very much a post-apocalyptic novel rather an an apocalyptic novel. Stewart handwaves the plague itself all the evidence Ish finds of the disaster suggests that people quietly and orderly died in bed or in hospitals. Spending a few days delirious with poison in a mountain cabin, he emerges to find that virtually the entire human race has been wiped out by a deadly plague. ![]() Isherwood Williams is a university student in his early 20s who is bitten by a rattlesnake while hiking in the mountains outside San Francisco. Then there’s the type which takes place generations after the collapse, in which society has reverted to a tribal state, cities are crumbling and overgrown with vegetation, and the artifacts of the past are revered or treated with superstition.Įarth Abides, one of the earlier example of post-apocalyptic science fiction (it was published in 1949), is an interesting novel because it bridges the gap between these two societies. ![]() There’s the type which follows survivors through the catastrophe itself and covers their attempts to stay alive, scrabbling for resources in an emptied world, eating out of cans and scavenging vehicles and firearms. Post-apocalyptic stories typically come in two flavours. ![]()
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