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Alas, Babylon

Pat Frank

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“Alas, Babylon” is a novel by the American writer Pat Frank, published in 1959. The book was one of the first fictional novels to deal with the theme of nuclear war and one of the first survivalist novels of its genre. It is consistently ranked in Amazon.com’s Top 20 Science Fiction Short Stories list even half a century after it was published and made one of the 100 Best Novels in David Pringle’s book.

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