Isbn: 9781857988215 - earth abides (s.f. masterworks) (36 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life. Returning from a field trip, Isherwood Williams discovers that a mysterious plague has destroyed civilization during his absence. Eventually returning to San Francisco, he finds a female survivor and together they and their children build a small community, living like their pioneer ancestors. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condición: New. 1999. New Ed. Paperback. Returning from a field trip, Isherwood Williams discovers that a mysterious plague has destroyed civilization during his absence. Eventually returning to San Francisco, he finds a female survivor and together they and their children build a small community, living like their pioneer ancestors. Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302. . . . . . …

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Condición: New. 1999. New Ed. Paperback. Returning from a field trip, Isherwood Williams discovers that a mysterious plague has destroyed civilization during his absence. Eventually returning to San Francisco, he finds a female survivor and together they and their children build a small community, living like their pioneer ancestors. Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Paperback. Condición: As New. 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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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence.Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life.A poignant novel about finding a new normal after the upheaval of a global crisis.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life. Returning from a field trip, Isherwood Williams discovers that a mysterious plague has destroyed civilization during his absence. Eventually returning to San Francisco, he finds a female survivor and together they and their children build a small community, living like their pioneer ancestors. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback: 7¾" x 5". Condición: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1999 Edition. © 1949: A stand-alone novel by George R Stewart. Unknown publication date. 9th printing of 1999 trade paperback edition. SF Masterworks Series I (#12):- Synopsis: A mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually, in San Francisco, he encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life:- Review(s): "A profound, poetic, post-holocaust novel of immense stature: so special I wanted mine to be the only copy" - Gary Kilworth / "Written with great conviction and emotional intensity. One of the masterworks of science fiction" - Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels:- (original cost £7.99). Cover Art: Les Edwards (ilustrador).…

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