Earth Abides

Contemporary Literature & Fiction

Author: George R. Stewart

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he’d either dreaded or hoped for…..Read More

10 Books Similar to Earth Abides

Lucifer’s Hammer

alternate cover for ISBN 0708813623The chances that Lucifer's Hammer would hit the earth head-on were one in a million. Then one in a thousand. Then one in a hundred. And… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Comets Collisions With Earth, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Adventure

Alas, Babylon

"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of… Continue Reading Posted in: Science Fiction, Survival Skills

A Canticle For Leibowitz

In a barbarous and fallen world, the monks of the Order of Leibowitz inherit the sacred relics and spend their lives copying, illuminating and interpreting the holy fragments. They vow… Continue Reading Posted in: 1923 Fiction In English. Texts, American, American Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Miller, Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Walter M.

The Postman

In post-apocalypse America, a survivor wanders the aftermath of a devastating war, trading tales for food and shelter. Fate touches him when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal… Continue Reading Posted in: Dystopian Science Fiction, Dystopias, Nuclear Warfare, Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“Genuinely moving," declared Entertainment Weekly of the fourth and final novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares, author of The Here and… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Women's Fiction, Young Adult

Swan Song

Swan is a nine-year-old Idaho girl following her struggling mother from one trailer park to the next when she receives visions of doom—something far wider than the narrow scope of… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Armageddon, Fiction In English

The Dog Stars

Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned… Continue Reading Posted in: Dystopias, Fiction

Leave a Reply