George R. Stewart

El gran clásico del fin del mundoUna novela lírica y elegante sobre las inapelables leyes de la naturalezaTras una plaga que borra a la humanidad de la faz de la Tierra, Isherwood Williams, uno de los escasos supervivientes, recorre el sudoeste de Estados Unidos en busca de otros como el. Con algunos de los pocos que encuentra forma una comunidad que intenta organizarse, mientras es testigo de como la naturaleza va borrando poco a poco todo rastro de la presencia del hombre.La tierra permanece es una de las cumbres de la ciencia ficcion y una verdadera rara avis, tanto por su patente caracter didactico como por el lirismo de su prosa. El personaje de Ish es, por una parte, el eslabon entre la civilizacion condenada y la que surge, vacilante, de sus cenizas, pero tambien un testigo privilegiado de la fragilidad y arbitrariedad de nuestros codigos de conducta.Una hermosa reflexion sobre ecologia, la vejez y la inevitabilidad del cambio.David Pringle, Ciencia ficcion: Las 100 mejores novelas

Cuando Isherwood Williams, un graduado en geografía, vuelve de unas vacaciones, descubre que todo el mundo está muerto, victima de un virus. Va a la deriva, observa la degradación del paisaje, plagas de insectos y roedores, y al regresar a San Francisco, encuentra a una sobreviviente y forman una pareja y tienen hijos que vuelven a la manera de vivir de los nativos americanos, completando un circulo. Ish queda como unico testigo al pasado y recuerda que "los hombres van y vienen, pero la Tierra permanece". Esta hermosa meditacion sobre la ecologia, el pasado y la inexorabilidad del cambio, es una de las obras maestras de la ficcion especulativa de todos los tiempos. Encuadernacion: Tapa dura con sobrecubierta.

In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence.Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life.A poignant novel about finding a new normal after the upheaval of a global crisis.

From the author of Storm, a breathtaking novel about a raging fire and the path of destruction and change it leaves in its wake.Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fire--smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake. Firefighters and lookouts, forest rangers and smokejumpersas well as animals in the forest, many of them the bewildered victims of the blaze, and all the varied trees and bushes thereare characters of this realistic story.

A thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land.With Storm, first published in 1941, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots an incipient little whorl on the weather map, a developing storm, he suspects, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewarts novel tracks Marias progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists, linemen, snowplow operators, a general, a couple of decamping lovebirds, and an unlucky owl, and the storm, surging and ebbing, will bring long-needed rain, flooded roads, deep snows, accidents, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanitys relationship to and dependence on the natural world.

Award-winning author George R. Stewarts history of the Donner Party is compulsive reading a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of horrifying episode in the history of the west" (Pulitzer Prize-winner Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people men, women, and children set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George R. Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers. Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party is an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.

Uno de los más interesantes relatos de ciencia ficción que acaba con todos los tópicos de las novelas de catástrofesUn devastador y desconocido virus asola la civilización; inexplicablemente, Isherwood Williams sobrevive a la plaga. A la deriva, ha de afrontar un mundo sin humanidad, de paisajes degradados y hordas de insectos y roedores. Finalmente, dara con una superviviente, con la que fundara una nueva sociedad semejante a la de los antiguos nativos norteamericanos. Unico testigo del pasado, Ish nos recuerda que "los hombres van y vienen, pero la Tierra permanece".