Alas, Babylon is a 1959 novel by American writer Pat Frank (the pen name of Harry Hart Frank). It was one of the first post-apocalyptic novels of the nuclear age and remains popular fifty years after it was first published. The novel deals with the effects of a nuclear war on the small town of Fort Repose, Florida, which is based upon the actual city of Mount Dora.
The novel's title is derived from Revelation 18:10, which is interpreted and quote...
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Alas, Babylon is a 1959 novel by American writer Pat Frank (the pen name of Harry Hart Frank). It was one of the first post-apocalyptic novels of the nuclear age and remains popular fifty years after it was first published. The novel deals with the effects of a nuclear war on the small town of Fort Repose, Florida, which is based upon the actual city of Mount Dora.
The novel's title is derived from Revelation 18:10, which is interpreted and quoted frequently in the book as the characters' way of warning each other of an impending crisis, such as the threat of a nuclear attack. It is loosely interpreted by the author as referring to nuclear holocaust.
In the King James Bible, this passage reads:
Randy Bragg, the protagonist, is a man who dabbles at law and lives a life with little purpose. The scion of a once prominent political family, Bragg is a former Korean War infantry officer whose own foray into public life was a run for the state legislature which proved disastrous because of...
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