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A classic 1949 novel by George R. Stewart, which depicts the new tribal society which slowly arises in (the ruins of) Berkeley, California after most of humanity is wiped out by a viral plague. Features much rumination about ecology and human society. One of the first of the [[Cosy Catastrophe]] genre, and a major influence on [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[The Stand]]''.▼
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▲A classic 1949 novel by George R. Stewart, which depicts the new tribal society which slowly arises in (the ruins of) Berkeley, California after most of humanity is wiped out by a viral plague. Features much rumination about ecology and human society. One of the first of the [[
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* [[Apocalypse How]]
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Hiking in the Rocky Mountains researching for a paper he's writing, Isherwood Williams finds a hammer left by miners. He keeps it the whole time, and eventually the children of the tribe he founds see it as a holy relic and the symbol of leadership.
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** The reservoir conveniently keeps delivering clean water to their houses for a long, long time before a pipe rusts out.
** Somewhat averted with the other survivors Ish meets briefly, a composite family of semi-literate black share-croppers in the southern US. But for the death of those around them (including their landlords), their lives of subsistence farming are continuing just as before.
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* [[Time Marches On]]: They name every year that passes, by the time the book ends it's into what would be the 1980's, not that anyone's keeping track.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Isherwood.
* [[World Half Empty]]:
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