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Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 1993-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0899683703
Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681375184
A thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land. With Storm, first published in 1941, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots “an incipient little whorl” on the weather map, a developing storm, he suspects, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart’s novel tracks Maria’s progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists, linemen, snowplow operators, a general, a couple of decamping lovebirds, and an unlucky owl, and the storm, surging and ebbing, will bring long-needed rain, flooded roads, deep snows, accidents, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanity’s relationship to and dependence on the natural world.
Author : Russell Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 9781841494647
Battered and bruised, suffering grievous loss, the Company enters the great city of Instruere. They have to warn the Council of Faltha of the Destroyer's threat, and have no idea of the depth of treachery that awaits them. Bhudwo's tentacles go far deeper in to Faltha than any of the Company realises ... they find Instruere to be a city divided against itself, and the Watchers are nowhere to be found. Then the arrival of a disturbing stranger ignites the political and religious tensions in the city and events escalate beyond control. Only one thing could unite a land wracked with such mistrust. But can it be found? Or is the Jugom Ark merely a legend?
Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : HMH
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0547525605
“Compulsive reading—a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of a horrifying episode in the history of the west.” —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people—men, women, and children—set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers; an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.
Author : Donald M. Scott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786467991
Best known for his 1949 post-apocalyptic thriller Earth Abides, George R. Stewart (1895-1980) spent a lifetime wandering the American landscape and writing books about its geography and history. An English professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the exceptional scholar-author penned some of the most remarkable literary works of the 20th century, inventing several types of books along the way--including the road-geography book, micro-history, place-name history, ecological history, and the ecological novel. By weaving human and natural sciences and history into his books Stewart created works with a multi-disciplinary perspective on events and places that influenced numerous other writers, artists, and scientists, including Stephen King, Greg Bear, and Page Stegner. This volume considers George R. Stewart's rich oeuvre while chronicling a life-long quest to uncover the deepest truths about the man and his work.
Author : Susan Peabody
Publisher : Susan Peabody
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1620304945
Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780312427900
A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence
Author : Brent Ryan Bellamy
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819580333
This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels imagine human responses to the aftermath of catastrophe. The shape of the future they imagine is defined by "the remainder," when what is left behind expresses itself in storytelling tropes. Since 1945 the portentous fate of the United States has shifted from the irradiated future of nuclear holocaust to the saltwater wash of global warming. Theorist Brent Ryan Bellamy illuminates the political unconscious of post-apocalyptic writing, drawing on a range of disciplinary fields, including science fiction studies, American studies, energy humanities research, and critical race theory. From George R. Stewart's Earth Abides to N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, Remainders of the American Century describes the tension between a reactionary impulse and the progressive impetus for a new world. "Brent Ryan Bellamy weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of fictions, all of which navigate the changing valences of apocalypse, survival, and remainders during the rise and fall of the post-Second World War 'American Century.' Given the global post-apocalyptic reality we all currently inhabit, this is a timely and significant study." "Brent Ryan Bellamy weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of fictions, all of which navigate the changing valences of apocalypse, survival, and remainders during the rise and fall of the post-Second World War 'American Century.' Given the global post-apocalyptic reality we all currently inhabit, this is a timely and significant study." —Gerry Canavan, author of Octavia E. Butler
Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481420003
Includes an excerpt from another adventure by John Christopher entitled 'In the beginning.'
Author : Whitley Strieber
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The year is 2025. Immense numbers of people swarm the globe. In countless, astonishing ways, technology has triumphed—but at a staggering cost. Starvation is rampant. City dwellers gasp for breath under blackened skies. And tottering on the brink of environmental collapse, the world may be ending … It is a future that could well be ours. In their second shocking and fascinating portrait of America's possible destiny, Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka have again written a breathless thriller, a book that gives us an important warning and ultimately a message of hope.