Earth Abides, by George Stewart, is without question one of the best end-of-the-human-race stories ever told. Stephen King liberally stole from it when writing The Stand.
It is also very much a Berkeley novel, and describes the very library building in which I work.
When fire rips through the depopulated Bay Area years after the plague, the library, a vast granite edifice - although musty and now home to bats - survives the inferno, not that anyone is left who can read and make use of its treasures.
It is also very much a Berkeley novel, and describes the very library building in which I work.
When fire rips through the depopulated Bay Area years after the plague, the library, a vast granite edifice - although musty and now home to bats - survives the inferno, not that anyone is left who can read and make use of its treasures.
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Re: Earth Abides
Mon, November 3, 2003 - 8:34 AMI concur, however, I Am Legend has it's place in the canon of end of the world stories resulting from a manmade occurences. Even Alas Babylon has it's moments. So Earth Abides by a nose, I Am Legend coming in second, and Alas Babylon a very close 3d.
