Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This really good dystopia, post-apocalyptic virus-hit landscape came out just a few years after WWII, and stands all the tests of time today.

There's something to be said about certain classics. This one does the Stand, Station Eleven, and all the Fallout games serious justice.

Specifically, it seriously attempts to show people actually trying to hope in the face of the end of modern civilization, and shows us a version that isn't SO grimdark as to WANT to see the utter end of humanity.

That's a fine point I'm trying to make. So many of the modern stuff just ... shows us nothing valuable.

The Earth Abides has a great balance to it. It's despairing, yes, but the balance is still on the side of hope. Something I've been missing in the genre.

This book is well worth remembering. Even if it's almost 80 years old.

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