Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

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Book name:	Earth Abides (2024)
Category:	Science Fiction
Author:	George R. Stewart
Pages:	345 pages
ISBN13:	0345487133
ISBN:	0345487133
Language:	English
Publication data:	March 28, 2006, 8 a.m.

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.

About the author

George R. Stewart

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George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his only science fiction novel Earth Abides (1949), a post-apocalyptic novel, for which he won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was dramatized on radio's Escape and inspired Stephen King's The Stand .

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