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 Alas, Babylon is a 1959 novel by American writer Pat Frank. It was one of the first post-apocalyptic novels of the nuclear age and remains popular nearly fifty years after it was first...




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 The Journal of American Culture
Family, Gender, and Society in 1950s American Fiction of Nuclear Apocalypse: Shadow on the Hearth, Tomorrow!, The Last Day, and Alas, Babylon
12/01/2006: 12,627 words, approx. 42 pages The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 terminated World War II, by far the most costly war in human history in terms of lives lost and destruction of facilities and resources. For a very brief period, the bombings inaugurated a period...
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 The Humanist
Alas, Babylon! How the Bush Administration allowed the sack of Iraq's antiquities. (arts).(Iraq Museum)
07/01/2003: 3,653 words, approx. 12 pages From April 8-11, 2003, U.S. armed forces rolled through Baghdad, Iraq, meeting only sporadic resistance. The looting began before the fighting ended. Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's palaces and the houses of his cronies were only the beginning. Hospitals, schools, university buildings, private offices,...



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Alas, Babylon
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The Speculative Fiction of "Alas, Babylon"
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 Pat Frank's novel "Alas, Babylon" is an example of "speculative fiction," a story that imagines the future. The novel poses interesting scenarios about what would happen if much of the world was destroyed in an apocalyptic war.


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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank | |
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About 90 pages (26,944 words) in 5 products |
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