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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 [[ |
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 [[Cozy Catastrophe]] genre, and a major influence on [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[The Stand]]''. |
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* [[Apocalypse How]] |
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* [[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. |
* [[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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* [[Cozy Catastrophe]]: Played straight, but also averted when the book's protagonist Isherwood Williams meets two people living the high life in [[New York City]], and realizes they aren't equipped (in gear or mentality) to make it through the first winter. |
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** The reservoir conveniently keeps delivering clean water to their houses for a long, long time before a pipe rusts out. |
** The reservoir conveniently keeps delivering clean water to their houses for a long, long time before a pipe rusts out. |
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** 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. |
** 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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[[Category:Science Fiction Literature]] |
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[[Category:Small Genres and Unclassified Literature]] |
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