“Earth Abides was a huge influence on my book [The Stand]. Read it in 7th grade and never forgot it.” — Stephen King
“This novel, George Stewart’s masterpiece, is exceptionally ambitious, wide-ranging, graceful, and wise. It’s one of the greatest novels in the subgenre of science fiction now called post-apocalyptic, and very worthy of the permanent place in science fiction and in American literature that it has achieved.” — Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future
“This is a book, mind you, that I'd place not only among the greatest science fiction but among our very best novels. Each time I read it, I'm profoundly affected, affected in a way only the greatest art—Ulysses, Matisse or Beethoven symphonies, say—affects me. Epic in sweep, centering on the person of Isherwood Williams, Earth Abides proves a kind of antihistory, relating the story of humankind backwards, from ever-more-abstract civilization to stone-age primitivism.” — Boston Globe
“One of those novels so rare in our time, that the reader wishes would never end.”
— New Yorker
“The book has more thought-challenging elements than a shelf full of ordinary novels.”
— Christian Science Monitor
“This is a novel that deserves not only to be read as a masterwork of sf, but also a classic of American literature.”
— SFFWorld.com