With Storm, first published in , George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific/5(13). · “Storm,” by George R. Stewart, which has sold more than a million copies since it was first published in , has recently been reissued in a Author: Blair Braverman. George R Stewart, English Prof at UC Berkeley in the olden days, deserves to be far more widely known. Before his iconic 'Earth Abides", 'Storm' was a detailed exploration of the birth, growth, and death of a December storm on Northern California, and incidentally it's affects on the human ants caught up in its power who are tasked within mitigated its impact/5(48).
by George R. Stewart ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 17, A massive winter storm brings destruction, peril, and death to drought-plagued California. The Chief Meteorologist at the U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco feels a tug of disappointment as the local weather remains, day after day, fair and unchanged. This is indeed the summer - and the week - of George R. Stewart. A film, currently planned to be a documentary about one of Stewart's non-fiction books, is under development. STORM is being republished by the New York Review of Books Press and offered as the NYRB Classics Book Club selection for August. The. Stewart, George R STORM New York, NY: Modern Library Fine/VG. pp. 12mo. Dark blue publisher's cloth with gold and black gilt on the front cover and spine. It is in its original clipped dust jacket some tearing at its spine corners and bottom edge. With brodart cover now over top. Pages are crisp and clean. Box
With Storm, first published in , George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. Book review: “Storm” by George R. Stewart. Early in George R. Stewart’s Storm (), the new Junior Meteorologist in the San Francisco office of the U.S. Weather Bureau is putting the finishing touches on a map that spans a good portion of the Earth, from the eastern edge of Asia, across the Pacific, across North America, to the western edge of the Atlantic. Jan Null, forty-year veteran weatherman in the SF Bay Area, and conductor of the Golden Gate Weather Services blog comments, "'STORM' by George R. Stewart should be REQUIRED READING if you are a meteorologist, meteorology student, deal with or communicate California weather on a regular basis, or anyone whose day-to-day activities in California are impacted by the weather. I have just finished rereading it for probably the 5th time and couldn't put it down.".
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