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George R. Stewart

Born

in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, The United States

May 31, 1895

Died

August 22, 1980

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Outdoors & Nature

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George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his only science fiction novel Earth Abides (1949), a post-apocalyptic novel, for which he won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was dramatized on radio's Escape and inspired Stephen King's The Stand .

His 1941 novel Storm , featuring as its protagonist a Pacific storm called Maria, prompted the National Weather Service to use personal names to designate storms and inspired Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to write the song "They Call the Wind Maria" for their 1951 musical "Paint Your Wagon." Storm was dramatized as "A Storm Called Maria" on a 1959 episode of ABC's D ...more

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	Earth Abides 3.95 avg rating — 29,923 ratings — published 1949 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party 4.07 avg rating — 1,802 ratings — published 1936 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics) by George R. Stewart, Matt Weiland (Introduction) 4.08 avg rating — 489 ratings — published 1945 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storm by George R. Stewart, Ernest Callenbach (Foreword by) 3.88 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 1941 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 4.13 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1959 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire 4.07 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1971 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The California Trail: An Epic with Many Heroes 4.18 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1962 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pioneers Go West 3.75 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1954 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	U.S. 40: Cross Section of The United States of America 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1953 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Committee of Vigilance: Revolution in San Francisco, 1851 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Men go and come, but earth abides.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

tags: bible

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“The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

tags: expectations, trouble

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“Then, though his sight was now very dim, he looked again at the young men. "They will commit me to the earth," he thought. "Yet I also commit them to the earth. There is nothing else by which men live. Men go and come, but earth abides.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

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What SF novel would you love to see get adapted into a feature film (and done right of course...no Uwe Boll "masterpieces")

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

15 votes, 39.5%

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

12 votes, 31.6%

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

5 votes, 13.2%

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

2 votes, 5.3%

Time and Again by Jack Finney

2 votes, 5.3%

Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock

2 votes, 5.3%

38 total votes

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