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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 — 30,493 ratings — published 1949 — 100 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 — 1,831 ratings — published 1936 — 58 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 — 502 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) 3.87 avg rating — 508 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 4.14 avg rating — 311 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 3.92 avg rating — 119 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 4.17 avg rating — 66 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 3.77 avg rating — 60 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 — 24 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 3.75 avg rating — 12 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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“If there is a God who made us and we did wrong before His eyes—as George says—at least we did wrong only because we were as God made us, and I do not think that He should set traps. Oh, you should know better than George! Let us not bring all that back into the world again—the angry God, the mean God—the one who does not tell us the rules of the game, and then strikes us when we break them. Let us not bring Him back.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

tags: god, religion

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