Earth Abides

George R Stewart

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Millennium, 1999

1857988213 / 9781857988215

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George R. Stewart?s Earth Abides is one of the great post-apocalyptic novels, though it has the decency not to sprint around waving a chainsaw and shouting about the end of the world. The disaster has already happened: a plague has swept away most of humanity, leaving Isherwood Williams ? Ish ? to wake into a world where civilisation has gone quiet and the planet appears to be coping rather well without its loudest species. Ish returns to an America of empty roads, silent towns, abandoned houses, failing systems and the eerie luxury of finding almost everything still there except the people required to make it mean anything. The shops are stocked, the tools remain, the books are on shelves, the cars wait, the power flickers on for a while, and the old world sits like a stage set after the actors have left. It is abundance with a corpse underneath. Rather than turning the apocalypse into a parade of explosions and leather jackets, Stewart is interested in what remains, what decays, what matters, and what human beings become when the inherited machinery stops being maintained. Ish gathers survivors, forms a small community, watches habits change, children grow, knowledge fade, customs form, language shift and the old civilisation become less a system than a memory told badly around a fire. The apocalypse here is not just an event. It is erosion. The title is perfect and faintly insulting. Earth abides. People do not, at least not in the grand permanent way people prefer to imagine. Roads crack, cities weather, libraries gather dust, animals move in, plants reclaim space, and humanity?s enormous self-importance begins to look like a temporary administrative arrangement. The planet is not vengeful. It simply continues, which is somehow colder. Nature does not need to gloat when ivy is available. There is a deep irony in Ish?s position. He is one of the last heirs of a vast technical civilisation, but knowing things is not the same as preserving them. A hammer, a book, a map, a rifle, a memory of electricity: all are useful, but only if someone after you understands why. Stewart turns survival into a long question about culture. What is worth saving? What can be saved? What vanishes the moment nobody is trained to care? For readers of classic science fiction, post-apocalyptic literature, plague novels, civilisational decline, ecological imagination and end-of-the-world stories with brains rather than merely ammo, Earth Abides is essential shelf material. It is quiet, grave, haunting and surprisingly unsentimental. The world ends, and then the really interesting part begins: the slow discovery that history was never guaranteed a forwarding address. Good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books. A solid Millennium paperback of a landmark catastrophe, ready to sit calmly on the shelf while reminding nearby dystopias that civilisation can collapse without needing quite so much shouting.…

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Título
Earth Abides
Autor
George R Stewart
Editorial
Millennium
Año de publicación
1999
Estado
As New
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
1857988213
ISBN 13
9781857988215

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