Science fiction has a set of standard concepts that every child eventually encounters. I’d like to read one where the main character is really the last person on Earth.) (By the way, these books start off with the main character feeling they are the last person on Earth, but eventually find other people. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife is a last-woman-on-Earth novel for the #MeToo generation. Stewart could never have imagined back in 1949. But not quite.Įlison’s main character is a woman, and Elison gives a feminist view to the collapse of civilization that George R. It’s a great novel, so why does anyone need to write another novel about a disease that kills off most of humanity? Meg Elison’s novel is just as gripping as Earth Abides and leaves the same psychological taste in the mind, so in some ways, they are almost identical. Stewart, about a disease that kills off most of humanity. One of my favorite books growing up was Earth Abides by George R. After finishing The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison it occurred to me that every generation might need its own end of civilization novel.
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