Earth Abides George R Stewart

[northernraider1]

A brilliant gentle read of one mans life after a pandemic wipes out 99% of the worlds people, it documents the main characters life as he falls ill after being bitten by a snake the same time the pandemic explodes onto the world, when he awakes from his fever everyone bar a few thousand folks across the US is dead, in the first half of this great book it documents his travel around the US to see what has happened to his world, in the second part it records his and his new families life in San Francisco for the next 60 years as technology is replaced by tribal culture and primative skills. ( beating dime coins into arrowheads for example)

[Matthew]

An absolute PA classic and if ever there was any sort of formal educational qualification based on the genre this would be on the list of books to be read.

Personally I always think of the 'year 22' senario in any PA situation.

[northernraider1]

Yup page 147 onwards in my copy with Ezra and em and co is where the story really starts to expand.