George r stewart books6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Stewart was primarily an English professor and historian and an only occasional novelist. Stewart’s 1949 post-apocalyptic novel is one of the most famous one-offs in the history of science fiction it won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951, and in all the decades since, the book has rarely been out of print. ![]() ![]() I suppose that’s why this summer, forty years after I blew it off when it was assigned in one of my first college classes, I finally got around to reading Earth Abides. Maybe it’s just the times we live in, but I increasingly find myself drawn to narratives of defeat: Confederate military memoirs, histories of the Decline and Fall of This and That, accounts of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow or Custer’s Last Stand. ![]()
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