Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Earth Abides
Author(s): Stewart George R.
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780358380214
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/13/2020