I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 1:14 KJV
- Earth Abides (Wikipedia)
Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools. Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead.
![With an apparent magnitude of 7.7, the [Messier 28] cluster appears as a faint patch of light through a pair of binoculars. Large telescopes can resolve its individual stars more effectively.](https://pinchy.cc/commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/M28_-_HST-U-V-IR.jpg/description-1-2/){kind=link}