A violent storm sweeps through California, taking on a life of her own. Making her way from the Pacific Coast, she gains momentum as she approaches the Sierra and transforms into a blizzard of great strength, covering mountain ranges and roads with twenty feet of snow. Originally published in 1941, _Storm_ is a rare combination of fiction and science by a master storyteller, drawing upon a deep knowledge of geography, meteorology, and human nature.
"In _Storm_ we are…far from freeways, from megapopulation, from sprawl, from beach TV, from stress, from road rage. And we are in touch with a much deeper reality. Of land and water and weather, of humans huddled together on the planet in a dark universe."—Ernest Callenbach, in the foreword
George R. Stewart (1895–1980) was a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of many books, including _Earth Abides_, _Fire_, and _Ordeal by Hunger_.
Ernest Callenbach is the author of _Ectopia_ and _Ectopia Emerging_. He also edits the _California Natural History Guides_ series for the University of California Press.