![]() Review Cover for the 1962 version of George R. His best-known academic work is Names on the Land – A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States.” More on Goodreads Key concepts Stewart was a founding member of the American Name Society in 1956-57, and he once served as an expert witness in a murder trial as a specialist in family names. 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.’ It was dramatized on radio’s Escape and inspired Stephen King’s The Stand. 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. “George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he’d either dreaded or hoped for.” More on Goodreads One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. ![]() “A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. ![]() “The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.” ![]()
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