Earth Abides is not an entertaining book. It is not perfect. It is a tad long-winded at some points, sometimes decidedly dated feeling, and has a serious lack of everything that generally entertains me. It is, at it's base, a look at the post-apocalyptic world through one man's eyes. It was first pu...
Isherwood (Ish) Williams is one of the few survivors of a disease that destroys civilization and all but wipes out humans. This story goes through how he survived, his travels and formation of The Tribe, his initial hopes of rebuilding civilization and his ultimate acceptance that civilization as it...
New Review! EARTH ABIDES was one of the first post-apocalyptic novels I read as a teen. I decided to re-read it to see if I thought modern tech made it impossible. http://tinyurl.com/n97oebz 5 stars for a 65yr old post-apocalyptic novel? YES I'm reading it again & again, the book never gets old....
Isherwood Williams or Ish comes to Hutsenville and sees that there’s no one in the town first he thinks all went to some new holiday party but very soon, he finds many people are dead. He finds a mass burials with the help of bulldozers initiated by authorities .First Ish became startled then rushes...
Isherwood Williams is "Ish" to himself and to most who know him. Ish, a graduate student in geography, out in the wilderness of northern California doing fieldwork, is bitten by a rattlesnake on the opening page of Earth Abides. As he's fighting fever and delirium alone in his cabin, an even large...
This is an early post-apocalyptic novel. The author George R. Stewart was not a science fiction author, but you would not know it from the way the novel is written. It fits very much into the science fiction novels of its period.The book's prose is the biggest problem. His writing can come off as...
A thought provoking read. It thoroughly deals with many aspects of an apocalyptic plague which almost drives humanity to extinction.I'd say this book is as realistic about such an event as possible. There are some interesting ideas about the future of civilization and what would happen to surviving ...
This post apocalyptic tale is from the perspective one one man, and that works very well. Especially enjoyed how disease and the breakdown of infrastructure tied in with the story of his small community. Very thought provoking, and made more enjoyable by other recent reads - The World Without Us; Ge...
I did not finsih this book, but I loved it up through 60%. This book details a post apocalpytic event that wipes out a huge portion of the world's population and destroys civilization. The internal dialogue of the main character is fantastic, very interesting. Through the post apocaplyptic event ...
This post apocalyptic account of a man (Isherwood) that survives a rampant virus that virtually wipes out all of humanity is a worthy addition to the SF Masterworks series.We see how, from immediately after the "great disaster" the trappings of civilization begin to collapse and malfunction. One by ...
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