The word is given ....

-- Remember the Alamo! (Texan@the.wall), November 11, 1999

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I hear you brother Texan, remembering the Alamo, and Waco too.

-- Nikoli Krushev (doomsday@y2000.com), November 11, 1999.

Alas, Babylon is a fun book. I read it for the first time a couple of months ago. It really rocked the nation when it came out in the 50's. I've read accounts of the past nuclear experts debating it about themselves.

I loved the part when Randy is in a total panic, racing through the store with his many shopping carts, and fights the urge at the check out line to tell the housewives to, "All of you! All of you buy everything you can!"

For those who haven't read the nuclear war classic, "Alas, Babylon" is a private signal between two brothers of impending doom, mimicked from a fiery preachers revelations sermon on ancient Babylon which always ended with "Alas, Babylon!"

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), November 11, 1999.

Alas Babylon... Great paperback. Got radioactive gold?

JJ

-- Jeremiah Jetson (laterthan@uthink.y2k), November 11, 1999.

How sad this all is.

-- (normally@ease.notnow), November 11, 1999.

Alas, poor Yorick...I knew him well...

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), November 11, 1999.

I read the story in 7th grade and it made quite an impression me.

"Got Salt???"

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.COM), November 11, 1999.

Alas Babylon is a personal favorite of mine. For something written so many years ago, it seems rather timely now. It's easy availability is no doubt further testament of this.

-- (sowingseeds@garden.net), November 12, 1999.

Order your copy or read some reviews.

-- I'll check the (libr@r.y), November 12, 1999.

Absolutly one of the best disaster books written. Still in print after 40 years.

Time: Christmas 1960, Senario: Major Nuc War,

Location: Small (5000) town on river in Central Florida

This book had everything. No mutant monsters, no gunfights on every other page.Just raw realism.

I liked best the Doctors comments. The war isnt even 18 hours old,

"Iv'e had a day I didn't think was possible to have. 2 people have drunk themselves senseless. 7 cardiacs dead and a couple of more will go before morning. 3 miscarriages and one of the women died. 3 suicides including the town banker. 8 babies born, 3 of them premature. The count hospital is a mess, cots end to end on every corridor. A good many are accident cases a few are gun shot wounds. All this and only 3 people directly injured by the war, refugees from Tallahassee who drove through some fallout."

If you want some more good disaster reading give me a shout, I have them all.

Woody the bookworm.

-- woody (woody11420@aol.com), November 12, 1999.

Remember what items Randy thought were valuable after several months? Coffee, medicine, fresh food, etc. Coffee is almost 100% imported. Get it while you can. Medicine requires serious components and lab work. Get it while you can. Fresh food? Better get some seeds.

I would also add toilet paper as a luxury that almost ALL Americans would suffer sorely without. Get it while you can.

-- anonymous (anonymous@anonymous.com), November 12, 1999.