

Earth Abides
Author: George R. Stewart
Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Unabridged: 13 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 10/13/2020
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Classic, Disaster
Author: George R. Stewart
Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Unabridged: 13 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 10/13/2020
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Classic, Disaster
George R. Stewart (1895–1980) is the author of Pickett’s Charge, Names on the Land, and the International Fantasy Award–winner Earth Abides, as well as numerous other books of history, biography, and fiction. He taught for more than fifty years at the University of California, Berkeley.
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