Earth Abides - Dystopias and Apocalypses - Extra Sci Fi
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- The Cold War prompted science fiction to take a turn from the darkness of humanity, to the end of humanity itself. Earth Abides is a keystone novel at this turning point, exploring the viewpoint of a lost hiker who returns to his California residence to find that humanity is gone... and yet, is rebuilding.
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Earth Abides revolves around humankind nearly being wiped out not by atomics, but by
plague. It brings in to sci-fi the post-war question of whether an ever increasing human population is truly sustainable. But perhaps more important to the history of sci-fi, it’ll ask a question that is almost a cliché in science
fiction today, but was nearly unexplored at the time: the question of how you rebuild after a collapse.
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METRO 2033 BOIS!!!!!!
Extra Credits WHEN WILL YOU DO FALLOUT??
Um I have a question what books are you all going to be covering because in a little more than a month I will be in basic training and I won't be able to watch the videos but I want to be able to read them when I do have time. If you don't respond I understand and I just wish you all have a good summer
Hey @Extra Credits can you make an extra history episode about the Philippine revolution and General Antonio Luna
This series really ties the channel together
I'm really glad you think so! I love doing this series so I'm always sad to see that it gets way less viewership than everything else.
-James Portnow
It's the least?! But I love the sci fi episodes!
*general perfrence is to give to people than media (oops with messaging)
Like it's hard to use the scientific model here, in that unlike a game here on youtube you're unable to pause and try out another possiblity; like in extra poltics conclusion noting how policy & poltical design has to be implemented while playing the political game; not that it's impossible or fruitless using the scientific method, quite the opposite, but there's limitations. Hence I guess the combination of methods and the faith we're able to learn & master the system
Ha, I see what you did there. I like your style, dude.
Here's a mind-blower: I grew up hearing about how the Indians up in the Andes were primitive because they never invented the wheel. Well it turns out they never *needed* to.
Necessity is the mother of invention
"Life uh, finds a way." -Dr. Ian Malcolm
"To make me vomit!!"- tfs Vegeta
I'm enjoying the implication that Robert Walpole causes the Apocalypse.
Robert walpole is guilty for everything
Tribe = beginning of city
Stone = beginning of technology
Primitive knowledge = beginning of advanced knowledge
History = future
And the message came, “ ALAS, BABYLON”! and The Postman rose into the thousand year night, and the vultures feasted that season.
@Crosis101: Well-done. :)
For a post-apocalyptic story, Earth Abides is very optimistic!
yeah... makes me think of wanting to make a game alike this book
Early entries into what they make a huge genre are often unlike what comes after. Like, a lot of apocalypses are content to stay in stage 1 forever, the immediate survival, and just not move on to see how things change or rebuild.
It´s known as Cosy Catastrophe
"You can call me the Earth or His Earthness or El Eartharino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."
Sir Earthalot.
Pure gold
Earth von Duck
I stumbled across this book in my father‘s library in July 2020. As a non-native speaker it caught my attention because I couldn’t get its title to make sense at first. Read it in full that same day. Even though I would say there‘s actually not that much happening in the book I have seldom read a book that has gripped me as much…
Earth: Yeah well,that's just, like your opinion man.
PostApocalyptia will be lost if they fail to remember the lessons of Walpole...
Religion centered around Walpole?
He always has a plan?
@@barrybend7189 "He always has a plan?"
That was Bismark.
@@frankharr9466 Wapole is the executioner of the plans and witness to all events.
@@artofthepossible7329 "Wapole is the executioner of the plans and witness to all events."
Walpole does things. But Bismark is the one who always has a plan, even if it's to wait until better odds.
I love Fallout, so I am always interested in learning where all the ideas got their start.
i always know that war, war never changes
@@GoggleDumb This is primarily a channel about video games, though.
Watching this in the pandemic of 2020 scary man scary
3:28 that is literally a concept I never heard of today. I need more of that very untouched idea.
Earth Abides is one of my all-time favourite novels. Just gorgeous.
Very relevant book
I'd be curious to see you cover "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" if ya wanna get really bleak.
Is
@@seventeenthletter2085 Sparta!
A Harlan Ellison episode would be tight!
Extra credits vid?
*[surprised picka-*
Wait oh god no PIKACHU NOOOOOOOO
Knowing our problems with Linear A I fear that not teaching a generation about reading or writing would somehow make everyone forget the english alphabet.
Great video. Pretty much the exact same thing happened during the Bronze age collapse and the Fall of the western Roman empire...
but today all the metal ores are poor quality, and the fossil fuels are hard to get. rebooting technological civilization will not happen.
the utube channel fall of civilizations has many excellent videos on this subject
Rats be like:*SNAP*
You should've gone for the head...
@@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 you should've have used that poison on me...
Please do “A Canticle for Leibowitz”
No comment ; )
Fiat Lux!
Hells Yeah!
This is scarily relevent now
I like all of your series, but extra sci-fi is by far my favorite and the one that inspires me to read all of the books.
Which segues most likely into the next book they ought cover, "A Canticle For Leibowitz" in which all the optimism and hopes at the end of this book are dashed, because war, war never changes.
I’m amazed at how many good videos you all have been able to make from this series on science fiction!!!
Sounds a lot like Horizon Zero and some of those conflicts. Pretty cool, thanks y'all!
I was about to post the exact same thing. I wonder if they read the book?
Part of me would love an Extra Literature series, spinning off from the Jane Austen Extra History episode
According to "A Canticle for Leibowitz" ( Walter Millar) , next time round will probably be worse.
"Three cars in every garage! Three eyes on every fish!"
Imagine clicking on the video and hearing that people died of a NEW plague....during Covid-19
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Mate am loving the art style, really nice visual
Well, this aged well
God imagine that happening though a plague decimated the world that would be scary
Covid 19 has entered the chat.
I'll echo the voices telling you to do A Canticle for Liebowitz.
But also, once you get out of the dystopia and post-apocalyptic kick and are open to just doing general sci-fi, Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow" could easily fuel a few videos.
Honestly I got the majority of the books featured in this series and Earth Abides was pretty low on my list, however after reading it's at the top of that list and even being one of my favorite books of all time.
I am assuming we'll soon be hearing about "Alas Babylon".
Probably my all time favorite fiction novel.
Man, now I want to see them do a video on Fallout.
Probably will never come but oh well.
Fallout is a common example I bring up when I'm describing games as art. None of the installments are by any measure perfect games, nor are they personal favourites of mine. But how they use the medium to convey their unique message of an iconic problem is a perfect example of games as an art form and I love to talk about them. So don't get me started, heh.
Well that’s pretty much the most hopeful message you can get out of a post-apocalypse!
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I know that the next world war will be fought with sticks and rocks."
Albert Einstein
EDIT: Also you cannot talk about the Apocalypse genre without doing A Canticle for Leibowitz guys. I'll be really disappointed if you guys never touch on Canticle.
Canticle is 100% on of the top 10 apocalypse novels, if not top 3
Geoff F. True, but they'll fight WW5 with MIND POWERS
You are my favorite CZcams
CZcams is my favorite youtube too
Nate Kammerer thanks, really cheered me up seeing this
Actually one of my favourite books!
*crosses fingers* I hope they cover A Canticle for Leibowitz next :)
Love that book!
Stage 2: exist
Me:plays rdr2’s house building theme
This story is so similar to Jack London's The Scarlet Plague written in 1912!
With this dystopian trend being featured, we will reveiw harlan ellisons "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"?
"The Earth Abides" (George Stewart), "Alas, Babylon" (Pat Frank) and Canticle for Liebowitz (Walter Miller whose daughter I know) are my favorites. So much better than Mad Max crap or any other Apocalypse pablum (zombies, etc.) Hollywood pumps out today. This tradition actually goes back to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Last Man" that you should have mentioned.
This has been one of my favorite books since high school, great little video!
PLAYER PIANO!!!! I love that book!
What have you done to pikachu!?!
They just made a Pokemon and Fallout Crossover
YouGottaMineDeep we just had Detective Pikachu so how about Zombie Pikachu?
And they already fucked up sonic, so wynaut?
From what I'm seeing, Earth Abides is almost like an opposite to H.G. Well's The Time Machine. Main character jumps forward in time, in Earth Abides by nature, in The Time machine by science, finds a completely different world than before, an apocalypse and an utopia respectively, the people there have changed with either human instincts or ignorant bliss. And how the world left behind is regarded in both books makes an interesting comparison. While in Earth Abides, it's told but never preserved, and in The Time Machine it's preserved but never told.
…I love being a sci-fi nerd.
The Time Machine was by Wells, not Verne, and it's hard to consider many of its ideas as depicting any kind of a utopia. It's more about evolution than utopias, and presented a satirical look at the problems of the social hierarchy of England at the time.
You guys should do the graphic novel, "V for Vendetta".
Anyone else thought the title was an oblique reference to The Great Lebowski? I feel like a philistine ...
Men go and come but the Dude abides.
Right, because the author was a time traveler. ::eyeroll::
Hoping one of those books that deals with Nuclear Annhilarion is “A Cantacle for Liebowitz.”
That feel when you go "I read that book!" during the intro. Feels well red man.
It’s also fascinating how British rock during the Beatles era transforms into Ozzy Osborn and Sex Pistols as the Cold War went on. The British managed their fear of nuclear destruction with pop rock and then with metal.
i know, few will care to notice, but the extra sci fi theme's made by the same guys who made the steven universe soundtracks.
just a thought to think about
I can definitely see the influence this work had on my favorite post-apocalyptic series of novels, William W. Johnstone's "The Ashes" series. Book one closely follows stage 1 (traveling and documenting events after sleeping through WWIII after being swarmed by bees) and 2 (builds a functional society that works for those who choose to follow the very simple and fair laws), but takes a turn as our main character Ben Raines (a retired special forces soldier and author) leads his followers around the world kicking the shit out of those who prey on the weak and helpless and bringing order and stability. I'm on I believe book 15 out of I think 30-33. Certainly not too thought provoking, but just a simple fun read.
Seems like Metro Exodus took some ideas from this story. There’s a section where you enter a forest full of young and somewhat childlike people who co-exist with nature. Turns out that they’re from a children’s camp in the forest and they revere their (now dead) teacher who protected and taught them.
I was hoping for a zombie apocalypse not a government apocalypse
Senator echo winter
What’s the difference
Inflection point. Wickedly accurate choice of words.
Love the series.
Gradual reintroduction of technology can be seen in the end of Babylon 5 where a post-apocalyptic mankind is slowly nurtured back to normal by its space survivors.
And in many fiction works we see how "speeding up the progress" can either not work at all or go horribly wrong. Moreover, some of the more modern Sci-fi (like Star Trek) introduce some social rules directly prohibiting intervention into alien progress because it can have bad and hard-to-foresee consequences.
The protagonist and his wife has to be one of the earliest examples of a positive interracial relationship in relatively mainstream media that I can think of in America during that era.
I have never seen a Apocalyptic world book, even 1984, treated with more reverence by people outside the niche market for these books, than Earth Abides. Grandma said it's literature, and THAT'S saying something! XD
Well, that aged well.
THE DUDE ABIDES. god i love the big lebowski 0:19
I drive a lot for work and I'm taking a second to say I have found a few audio books I enjoy from this channel. Just giving props where it's due.
I think that deep down, instinctively, we understand we are too many and we have made life in the world complex - thus the appeal for a great reduction in and simplification of who and what we are appeals to us.
This is haunting today
Cue the Fallout reference.
You guys make my day everyday!
Earth Abides! I've never met anyone else that knows this one. Nice. I think about Ish & Em every time I cross the bay bridge.
This book has been on my Audible wish list for 2 years now.
The list never seems to get shorter.
"Perhaps, this is a better FOUNDATION to start again."
I think I know what you did there!
Pikachu looks different than I remember!
Reminder that Splatoon is a post-apocalyptic shooter game.
Thanks to my uncle I heard this on cassette tape as a kid and I thought it was the coolest thing ever
Watching this in 2020 is.... Quaint
Came here to forget about COVID.
Welp, THAT didn't happen.
That plague opening sounds a lot more realistic now than when this video came out.
Sounds like a book I have to read! Most dystopias and apocalypses are so dismal; I'm shocked that one of the most influential ones has such a hopeful message!
Immediately realizes the things we are in at the moment.
The illustrations are getting better all the time - each picture succinctly telling an episode of the story like a latter day Bayeux tapestry or Parthenon Frieze.
Please let one of the following episodes be A Canticle For Leibowitz. So many similar themes treated in insightful ways.
me : what is that 3:43 5:18 my brain : it's fallout 3 or 4 the game. Me: oh *sings I don't want to set the world on fire*
I need to sleep for a test tomorrow, but I need to watch this.
oh boy its fun to watch this video in 2021
Considering Humanity in Earth Abides was nearly wiped out via plague and there's currently a plague going on right now, oh boy. {=(
4:57 Wow that slightly hidden history joke like sentence was a *slaps knee* knee slapper.
Very much appreciated the Frankenstein reference.
What the video doesn't capture is that this book is *very* depressing. Like, very depressing even after you consider that it's about an apocalypse.
What an amazing book
I wonder if Horizon Zero Dawn took notes from Earth Abides? I'm seeing a lot of parallels between the two now.
Look up Panzer Dragoon. Its a good example of this kind of story.
why does the picture in 4:28 remind me so much of the scene in "The Stand" where Mother Abigail tries to protect herself and her food from wolves? (if i remember correctly)
What a strong message
This is a surprisingly optimistic post-apocalyptic book!
Do 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' please!
Just finish arting that one mate
@@davidhueso awesome, much appreciated!
3:41 foooor the brotherhood!!
"I don't want to set the world on fire."