I have been a fan of PA fiction for over 30 years. My first PA novel was the children's novel "Beyond the Dark River" by Monica Hughes - a novel which I read when I was eleven. It hooked me on PA fiction and ever since then I have been trying to find as many novels or movies that I could get my hands on.I had read good things about Earth Abides online and was looking forward to reading it. Can I say how disappointed I was? Perhaps it was the era in which it was written, but all I could think of throughout the book is that the new civilization would have been much better off without the pompous a$$ of the main character Ish. "They thought of me as a God." Good grief!If I could have rated this movie a zero I would have. Take this one out of the library if you must, you'll be glad that you didn't waste your money on it.