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The encyclopedia of science fiction the book has more thoughtchallenging elements than a shelf full of ordinary novels. First published in 1949 and a winner of the inaugural international fantasy award in. It made locus magazines list of best all time science fiction and was a major inspiration for the stand. Stewarts earth abides was his only sciencefiction novel, but it influenced the likes of stephen king and greg bear.
In the earth abides the flame by russell kirkpatrick. George r stewart the awardwinning futuristic classic of the world ravaged by plague and struggling with hope. He is the author of picketts charge, earth abides, and numerous other books of history, biography, and fiction. Making earth abides a novel for which words like elegiac and transcendent come easily to mind, a novel bearing, in critic adamtroy castros words, a great dark beauty. Earth abides is probably more relevant now than when it was written. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth.
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