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Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs, including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter, and editor of several West Coast newspapers, before becoming a full-time writer.

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs, including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter, and editor of several West Coast newspapers, before becoming a full-time writer.

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs, including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter, and editor of several West Coast newspapers, before becoming a full-time writer.

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs, including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter, and editor of several West Coast newspapers, before becoming a full-time writer.

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle.

As usual, the international situation is desperate Rumors of war circulate as nations clash over both ideological and physical territories uter space is open for business.

The Soviets and Americans are armed to the teeth with warheads but, with Sputnik in orbit, the U. S. is at a disadvantage his almost describes the actual real-life news cycle when Alas, Babylon was first published in 1959 But in this story things are different, though very much in the realm of possibility.

Domino effect for total disaster starts with the eternal problem of miscommunication It's the type of chain reaction that stretches from high ranks of international military theater to gossiping neighbors in the small town of Fort Repose, Florida, home of Randolph Bragg ust over thirty, already a Korean war vet and semi-retired lawyer/politician, Randolph has inherited a nice piece of property from his old man and is living a pretty lazy bachelor life.

But things are about to get heavy for Randy and also the rest of the entire world e has a brother who is military brass and knows what's coming He warns Randy to stockpile what he can on short notice then sends his family to Fort Repose, hopefully out of harm's way t's not long before flashes of light appear in the sky and a worst case scenario unfolds: a first strike nuclear attack Soon, cities are flattened and all outside communication is cut off, followed by the breakdown of civilized society and radioactive fallout hings are downhill from there Alas, Babylon is not an all encompassing account of war t is a vision of a small group of people, forced by circumstances out of their control to reckon with the dissolution of social, racial, economic divides When all that's left is survival, they are forced to communicate and work together o deal with what Pat Frank at one point calls “enforced truth.” Will these people survive without electricity, gasoline, clean water, grocery stores, coffee? Will they ever get to listen to record albums again etting to these answers will mean not only rediscovering the workings of the natural world but also their own true natures.

Edition Details

• Signed by David Brin, David Ho, and Michael Furlong.
• Fully cloth bound, with dustjacket, spine and front board stamping, top-edge stain.
• Illustrations by David Ho.
• Printed endpapers.
• Selection of archival artwork and old editions.
• Book size 5½ × 8&frac75; inches.
• Number of pages: 568.