book endorsement: alas, babylon

[rockriver]

i'm halfway through Alas, Babylon.
i've heard of it occasionally.. and someone on here openly recommended it?? maybe protus.
i can't find the post...

it was 13$ less a 20% discount.
written if 1959. could have been written in 2009.
the russians nuke the u.s. a small out of the way town survives the inital nukes..
but problems galore.
it is easy to visualize as you read.
it will motivate you to "do more to prep"
rr

[Defuz]

i'm halfway through Alas, Babylon.
i've heard of it occasionally.. and someone on here openly recommended it?? maybe protus.
i can't find the post...

it was 13$ less a 20% discount.
written if 1959. could have been written in 2009.
the russians nuke the u.s. a small out of the way town survives the inital nukes..
but problems galore.
it is easy to visualize as you read.
it will motivate you to "do more to prep"
rr

It's a great book which I thoroughly enjoyed. For preppers, it's a must read.

[protus]

It's a great book which I thoroughly enjoyed. For preppers, it's a must read.

yip IMHO O.S.A is just a re hash of what that book laid out back then.Prolly the reason i disliked osa so much.

the two combined would make a good dbl book read for a new perosn or someone.
I know OSA got people talking that i wouldnt have thought of talking preps about.

imho folks should read alas 1st.....then osa......

[eeyore]

It is a good read, i have read it a couple of times.

It helpped me understand my need to store salt, not a big part of the story, but one of the things i got from it.

[Lowdown3]

One of my GF's in high school was in "gifted" reading class, I was a slacker. She brought me this book said "this is right up your alley." I read it in a day, then asked her how long it took her to read it "couple weeks." I said "gifted huh?" and smiled :) LOL

[rockriver]

protus...
golleee...
you got me hooked on alas babylon....
now you done gone and gave me some initials!!
osa??

btw, i'm finished... it ended too quickly... i was still learning.
confirm the endorsement.
rr

[protus]

protus...
golleee...
you got me hooked on alas babylon....
now you done gone and gave me some initials!!
osa??

btw, i'm finished... it ended too quickly... i was still learning.
confirm the endorsement.
rr

one second after. sorry shoulda put that in.

[groovy mike]

'Alas Babylon' sets the bar for all SHTF fiction. It is the gold standard and a must read. I've read it a couple of times and pick up copies at yard sales and library sales for $1 or so to pass along to others.

Now go find a copy of 'Patriots'

I highly recommend anything written by Jerry D. Young who has a lot of free stuff on the internet and just put a CD of dozens of his storries up for sale. Jerry also kindly edited my soon to be published "Sorry, you're on your own" which also has a couple draft versions floating around the internet.

[becky3086]

Thanks, I was wondering what osa was too. Will have to get that one. I have had Alas, Babylon for years and still enjoy reading it from time to time.

[Gordon]

"Alas, Babylon" was written by an author that lived not too far south of where we camp at in the Ocala National Forest. He lived in a town called Tangerine but the town in the book is likely modeled after Mount Dora. He did live on the chain of lakes that would enable passage by water from the interior of Florida to the Atlantic ocean. Or at least at that time the book was written you could, depends on the water level now. The springs he mentions where they got the salt from are very close the Ocala campgrounds. They are named, aptly enought, Salt Springs. When I was growing up in Leesburg we would go camping at Salt Springs and spear fish for mullet and net Blue Crabs. Fried mullet is not that good to me but some crabs boiled in that brackish water from Salt Springs are some good eating. They found their way from the Atlantic, up the St. Johns and in to the salt springs.

[arcangel911]

Alas Babylon is a great read, as is one second after...

Patriots I enjoyed throughly, and I just got JWR How to survive the end of the world book today in fact...

Those three sit next to Earth Abides on my shelf... granted it was written in 1955, still is a haunting book to me and the possibilities of what a pandemic could do. Also brings up animals and their behaviors when their masters are gone....

[Gordon]

"Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is another good one. Deals with natural disaster.

[ssonb]

I read Alas Babylon in high school it was the start for me, Then came Lucifer's Hammer after that When Worlds Collide,The HAB Theory, Mareivel , not so good (French written need I say more). Now I have degenerated into reading JWR writings,Lights Out and I am even embarrassed admit in liking Jerry Youngs stories. My advice to anyone is "don't do it not even once" It will turn into a habit that you do not even want to control. I am sorry to say that it may convince you that you could even write a story yourself.
I hope JDY does not mind me ribbing him every once and a while.

[protus]

for giggles. My wife had read one second after a while back, tried to read the road but couldnt, and now i have alas bayblon on my desk. She picked it up from the local library the other day. Im 3/4's of teh way through it again.Then she will read it and we'll chat about it like OSA.


Lotta stuff i see now that i didnt when i 1st read it long ago.So i am 150% sure others will to.

If you havent read it recently, pick it back up, it wont let you down.

[Mannlicher]

I have an original copy, and I read it when it first came out. This is one of the BEST 'survival books'.