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George Rippey Stewart Jr. (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His 1959 book, Pickett's Charge , a detailed history of the final attack at the Battle of Gettysburg , was termed "essential for an understanding of the Battle of ...
Nov 23, 2021 · What I’m Reading: Earth Abides, George R. Stewart. George Spencer. November 23, 2021. In 1911, butchers at an Oroville, California, slaughterhouse found a man named Ishi starving in its corral. For thousands of years — thousands — Ishi’s tribe had lived in the forests of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Now he was its sole survivor, the ...
Jun 24, 2015 · The scene with the Junior Meteorologist looking at his map with pride and a bit of awe — like “some archangel hovering in the ninth heaven” — is an example of Stewart’s skill as a writer.
Jul 28, 2021 · Stewart’s prose is never more rhapsodic than when he charts profound transformations that unfold over vast, inhuman stretches of time: the beaver colony’s work to impede the flow of a mountain creek, rainwater’s patient assault on limestone canyons, a river’s magic trick of turning a mountain into a molehill.
Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools.
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.
He invented several types of books — the microhistory, the ecological novel, the place-names history, the highway-as-guide book. The popularity and influence of his works is widespread: One of his works, Earth Abides, has been in print for 60 years and is now available in twenty languages.
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