- Terry Pratchett (allthetropes.org)
Fantasy author (1948-2015). A Knight Bachelor (i.e. Sir Terry Pratchett OBE), he’s been described as the most shoplifted author in Britain (belying an American critic who once claimed that he hadn’t found his audience).
- 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.