Alas, Babylon

by Pat Frank

Alas, Babylon electrified middle America, providing a familiar point of reference from which to process and understand a confusing world where Disneyesque facades masked rotting beams and flimsy foundations.

For even as Alas, Babylon participates in the helpful process of criticism, finding failure modes to warn against, it mixes warning with that other message. One calling for optimism, pragmatism, and a belief that all problems might be solved, with enough courage, determination, good will, grit, patience… …and hope.