Soapstone Covered
Posted on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 1:48 pmLooking for a book about a future society?
The cover has a picture of a soapstone sculpture which the main character finds on the dead body washed up on a river. The book involves the society that has been wiped out by a virus and the main character manages to survive somehow and has lived in the house he built with his own hands. He keeps a large store of canned food, weapons, ammunition, and a generator; which he maintains meticulously. He encounters a village taken over by renegades and saves them. If anyone knows the title or author of this novel I would really appreciate it.
Earth Abides by George Stewart?
While working on his graduate studies in biology in the mountains, Ish is bitten by a rattlesnake. As he heals from the bite, he gets sick with a disease that looks like measles. He recovers and makes his way back to civilization, only to discover that most people died from the same disease. He goes to his home in Berkeley. As he travels, he observes the world in the light of ecology, watching it adapt to the loss of humans. In the city near his home Ish meets few human survivors — a man drinking himself to death, a couple who seem to have lost their sanity, and a teenage girl who flees from him as someone dangerous. He comes across a dog, friendly and eager to join him. The dog, now named Princess, swiftly adopts Ish as her new master and sticks by him for much of the book. Wondering if his observations are typical of humanity in general, he sets out on a cross country tour, traveling all the way to New York City and back, scavenging for food and fuel. As he travels, he finds small pockets of survivors, but he doubts that they will survive the loss of civilization.
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