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	Alas, Babylon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alas, Babylon is a novel by Pat Frank published in 1959, and "must qualify as one of the very first apocalyptic novels of the nuclear age."[1] The subject deals with the effects of a nuclear war on a small Florida town.
		Alas, Babylon was notable for depicting fallout and radiation as an invisible threat, rather than a roaming "cloud of death" as in other novels such as On the Beach.
		An adaptation of Alas, Babylon [2] was broadcast on April 3, 1960 as the 131st episode of the Playhouse 90 dramatic television series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alas,_Babylon (992 words)

	#6. Alas, Babylon! (Revelation 14-18) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Babylon has first been burned by the ten kings (17:16-18), and now is destroyed by earthquake with the kings' cities.
		The Whore of Babylon has as her opposite the pure Bride of Christ (19:7-9) and the Holy City of God, New Jerusalem (chapters 21-22).
		Babylon is the world as the center of antichristian seduction at any time in history (Hendriksen).
	www.jesuswalk.com /revelation/6_babylon.htm (2598 words)

	SparkNotes: Alas, Babylon: Chapters 1–2
		Near the end of the meal, Florence mentions the telegram that Randy received that morning, with the cryptic phrase "Alas, Babylon" at the end.
		Alas, Babylon speculates about America in the aftermath of a nuclear war.
		With this Soviet Mediterranean push as the motivating factor, Alas, Babylon uses the idea of a "missile gap" to provide the rationale for why the Soviets would start a nuclear war.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/alas/section1.html (840 words)

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		Alas, Babylon, which was written by Pat Frank and published in 1959, takes place in Fort Repose, Florida.
		Alas, Babylon is the phrase that Randy and Mark used when there was something terribly wrong and to take what ever they said very serious so Randy met his brother at the base.
		It is in this respect that Alas, Babylon, by Pat Frank, differs from typical nuclear war literature: while Alas, Babylon takes a standpoint of despair towards nuclear war itself, it strongly affirms the human condition and its ability to adapt to and grow as a result of that war.
	www.lazystudents.com /hyperpapers/alasbabylon.html (5564 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews: Alas, Babylon
		Though tipped off to the coming Apocalypse by his brother in the Air Force (using their childhood code for disaster, the "Alas, Babylon!" thundered by the fire-and-brimstone local preacher), Randy still has no idea how to meet the crisis.
		But Alas, Babylon deals with a future jerked the other way, where people living in the present are thrown back into primitive times.
		The novel's original impetus was a flat homily on the unwinnability of nuclear war, but surprisingly it is the characters of Alas, Babylon that bring the story alive.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue87/classic.html (602 words)

	Asking the Wrong Questions: Alas, Babylon
		Maybe Babylon 5 is like a piece of marching music--you know you're being manipulated, but the drums bypass your brain and head straight for your stomach and your legs and your heart.
		Babylon 5 is important, I think, because it laid the foundation for the SF television that came after it - stuff like Farscape, Futurama, Firefly, the new Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica.
		The main problem with Babylon 5 was that it had the worst acting ever on a TV show.
	wrongquestions.blogspot.com /2005/11/alas-babylon.html (13343 words)

	Flu Wiki 2 - Forum - Alas Babylon
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		The first time I read Alas Bablyon was in high school in the 1960s,,,,,and since then, have read thru two of them and read the story at least 7 times since then.
		Alas Babylon was a required read for my advanced highschool English class in the early 80′s.
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	Alas, Babylon
		Besides the various ambassadors to Babylon 5, President John Sheridan and his wife, Delenn of the Minbari, would also be at the station to meet with Moya's crew, as would President Susana Luchenko of the Earth Alliance.
		Babylon 5 is here as a place for the different races to solve their differences peacefully so another war doesn't occur.
		They were safe on Babylon 5, John was sure of that, but he wanted D'Argo to be there for the crew, just in case he and Aeryn did not come back.
	www.jedikatie.com /iank_alasbabylon.html (16663 words)

	Slashdot \| Babylon 5 Coming Back?
		Babylon 5 was so well constructed and intricate that the characters had real depth, and you felt like you knew them, and by way of that, the actors.
		Babylon 5 was great but it didn't instill the sort of eternal love that series like Doctor Who (and even Star Trek: the Next Generation to some degree) have.
		I'd loop it, but alas the line is on his face, and it'd look real stupid, and the delivery is so perfect as it is; if we looped it, we'd destroy it.
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	Alas, Babylon - By Bill Barnes - Slate Magazine
		In Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank's classic nuclear-apocalypse novel of the 1950s, a man awaits word that nuclear war is imminent.
		He'll know that time is up when his brother, working for the government and privy to top-secret information, sends him a telegram with the words "Alas, Babylon." The collapse of Microsoft would not be quite as calamitous as a nuclear war.
		I can't expect a telegram from Bill Gates saying "Alas, Babylon." So here are the signals that will warn me the unthinkable may be happening.
	www.slate.com /id/2474 (1087 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| ALAS, BABYLON by Pat Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His fiction and nonfiction books, stories, and articles made good use of his years of experience observing government and military bureaucracy and its malfunctions, and the threat of nuclear proliferation and annihilation.
		After the success of Alas, Babylon, Frank concentrated on writing for magazines and journals, putting his beliefs and concerns to political use, and advising various government bodies.
		From 1963 through 1964 the Department of Defense made use of Frank's expertise and advice, and this consultancy turned out to be his last response to his country's call.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/alas_babylon-author.asp (187 words)

	Rambles: Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alas, Babylon tells the story of a small town in Florida right after nuclear war accidentally breaks out between America and the Soviet Union.
		In Alas, Babylon, basic survival becomes the first goal of the now-isolated Florida town, with a rebuilding of an economy and a social structure addressed next.
		The characters are believable, the story flows well and the reader is left with the impression that he/she has been to this place and met these people.
	www.rambles.net /frank_alasbab59.html (185 words)

	Babylon (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Babylon, the capital city of Babylonia in ancient Mesopotamia
		In the New Testament, especially the Book of Revelation, references to "Babylon" are commonly interpreted as references to Rome or a metaphor for the power of the Roman Empire; some anachronistically extend this to Europe or even the current world-system; see Babylon (New Testament).
		In Rabbinic literature, Babylon is often used to refer to the Jewish diaspora especially the Babylonian captivity
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babylon_(disambiguation) (387 words)

	Amazon.com: Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics): Books: Pat Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alas Babylon is one of the best disaster stories I've ever read.
		While the research pointing to these conclusions is too lengthy for inclusion in an Amazon.com review, the examination by this Alas, Babylon reader and researcher points him to the less fictional and more historical conclusion about which this review is titled.
		The reader is suggested to perhaps type "mount dora alas babylon" into Google and reach is own conclusions.
	www.amazon.com /Alas-Babylon-Perennial-Classics-Frank/dp/0060931396 (1922 words)

	Lost Books Guest Reviews - Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank - Review by Marian Powell
		That phrase had been a code meaning trouble ever since the brothers were children and heard a fiery sermon on how the wicked cities of America are like Babylon in the Bible and will face the same destruction for their wickedness.
		When they meet, the brother says that the world is on the verge of all out nuclear war and he is sending his wife and children to stay with Randy.
		We may, in looking at the former Yugoslavia, be looking at the future of Western Civilization and it is a book like Alas, Babylon that gives hope that a civilization really can survive and rebuild.
	www.lostbooks.org /guestreviews/1999-08-17-1.html (987 words)

	Amazon.ca: Alas, Babylon: Books: David Brin,Pat Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Knowing there was a distinct possibility that one day I might have to face a full-on nuclear disaster, I found that Alas, Babylon rang so true to me that it haunted me for years.
		Alas Babylon tells the tale of a family preparing for, experiencing and then surviving a nuclear war in the mid 1950's.
		When I was an impressionable young girl of 14, my then boyfriend at the time insisted I read Alas, Babylon, saying that he felt a nuclear conflict was not only possible, but inevitable.
	www.amazon.ca /Alas-Babylon-David-Brin/dp/0060741872 (1429 words)

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		Shortly after the move, Peter Gilmore, a longtime member of LaVey's inner circle and a Magister in the Church, explained the move to an interviewer: "New York is the perfect city for a Satanist to live in," he said.
		The hungry darkness still lurks on the fringes and will return to center stage in time, as the loadstone at these world crossroads is a powerful lure.
		Yes, our once and future Babylon is still Satanic, and those of us who know it intimately can still find the stimulating extremes, sidestepping the alien throng of mall cultists.
	www.nypress.com /18/23/news&columns/knipfel.cfm (1135 words)

	Alas Babylon \| MetaFilter
		January 15, 2005 12:45 AM The damage wrought by the construction of an American military base in the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon must rank as one of the most reckless acts of cultural vandalism in recent memory.
		Aerify: The reason to care for the destruction of pieces of art and ancient history (such as the city of Babylon) is because in learning about their history, we learn about ourselves.
		The significance of building a base in the ruins of babylon is evident, and it certainly is not the result of the US army's blindness or insensitivity to history and the value of culture.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/38644 (4453 words)

	Alas, Babylon - Forums powered by UBB.threads™
		I read “Alas, Babylon” in the late 80s and remember the protagonist’s need to adjust his lifestyle — using a straight razor, eating only canned food and going to bed hungry every night.
		I didnt know about that book called "alas, babylon" and i can see that he copied part of his stoy from that book.
		I dont wanna make this longer, but in conclusion i think this was a very well prepared fraud that took time and a lot of imagination (although he copied part of his story from that book "alas, babylon").
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	Alas, Babylon - Digital Booktalk
		From the UCF School of Film and Digital Media.
		"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end.
		When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly.
	www.dm.ucf.edu /~dbooktalk/new_site/view/?id=11 (101 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| ALAS, BABYLON by Pat Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Then Randy Bragg, the younger son of a prominent local family--lawyer, Korean War vet, and unsuccessful candidate for the state legislature--receives a Western Union cable from his older brother, Mark, a colonel in the Strategic Air Command.
		Mark's cable includes a code phrase used by the brothers since childhood to indicate imminent disaster: "Alas, Babylon." Randy correctly concludes that nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union is in fact imminent.
		To what extent do you think he intended the references to Babylon in Chapters 17 and 18 of The Revelation to apply to the United States of the 1950s?
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/alas_babylon.asp (838 words)

	Alas, Babylon! How the Bush Administration allowed the sack of Iraq's antiquities - arts - Iraq Museum Humanist - Find ...
		The damage to Iraq's thousands of archaeological sites may take months to all be reported, but many of the smaller museums at these sites were also looted.
		Some were burned, such as Babylon's Nebuchadnezzar Museum.
		The Mosul Museum was bombed and looted; losses there may turn out to be more extensive than those in Baghdad.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1374/is_4_63/ai_104971393 (940 words)

	Alas, Babylon
		I was pleased to find that The Day After was not like this, that it acknowledged that after a nuclear war there is no hope for anyone but the bugs.
		The main character of Alas, Babylon is a 1959 version of a Neal Stephenson badass nerd.
		Before the bombs drop, his badassedness is only latent: he's a Korea veteran, has military connections, tweaks the town fuddy-duddies, and has a way with the ladies, but he hasn't done much with his life.
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	Alas, Babylon - Book Review
		Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (by Erin, 14)
		"Read Alas, Babylon if you have interest in nuclear wars or survival."
		I am reading Alas, Babylon as an assignment for school and not for my own interest.
	www.smartgirl.org /reviews/books/292125.html (193 words)

	Book Review: Alas, Babylon
		Frank tries to be very detailed about the nuclear strike and make the people in the story real, so the readers visualize the crisis.
		Each of Alas, Babylon's 13 chapters is packed with the thoughts and emotions of the struggling survivors.
		If you are looking for adventure or just want something different, Alas, Babylon is a story of a lifetime.
	www.teenink.com /Past/9900/April/Books/AtlasBabylon.html (320 words)

	Powell's Books - Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics) by Pat Frank
		A classic tale of the unthinkable--a nuclear holocaust in the United States--Frank's gripping story of survivors in a small Florida town includes a new Foreword by Brin.
		"Pat Frank" was the lifelong nickname adopted by the American writer, newspaperman, and government consultant, who was born Harry Hart Frank (1908-1964), and who is remembered today almost exclusively for his post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon.
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	www.powellsbooks.com /biblio?isbn=0060741872 (345 words)

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		Explain the meaning of the phrase “Alas, Babylon.” Where did it come from and what does it signify?
		What is Florence Wechek’s impression of Randy at the beginning of Alas, Babylon?
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		FREE ESSAYS Alas, Babylon Essay In the book Alas, Babylon, the author, Pat Frank, discusses the condition of the human race.
		Mainly, his view differs from others because rather than write about the countries in a nuclear war, he writes about people living in the countries that are involved in that war.
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