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Posted 2017-05-06 2:53 AM (#15683 - in reply to #15576)
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kabouter - 2017-04-12 2:34 AM

Just finished reading 'Earth Abides' by George Stewart. A decent read, although I'm puzzled by the fact that the survivors of the Great Disaster still mostly eat canned food after 21 years. That must be a bore. Makes you wonder how many cans they found, must be a lot of raided warehouses. Also the Great Disaster itself was very clean, almost no dead bodies to be found, highways are clear of cars. Apparently nobody died on the road. But apart from it was a good read, not overly complicated. A quick read.


I think Stewart's point was that inertia following the disaster (possibly in part due to the trauma) was what drove the people in it to the situation they were in. Hunting is *hard* and if you're doing it for subsistence, takes a lot of energy. Easier to open a can of Sherriff's Irish Stew or Chef Boy-ar-dee.

I did notice the lack of dead bodies, and I think Stephen King did too when he borrowed the trip across America almost whole-hock for The Stand. I even know where he got the idea for Larry Underwood in the New York tunnel. Did you see it too? Or have you read The Stand?

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