Pat Frank

“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” — The New Yorker The classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, with an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin. “Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away. But for one small Florida town, miraculously spared against all the odds, the struggle was only just beginning, as the isolated survivors—men and women of all ages and races—found the courage to come together and confront the harrowing darkness.

Originally published at the dawn of the Atomic Age, Mr. Adam is a riveting, chilling novel from the author of the post-apocalyptic classic Alas Babylon , revealing the dangers of nuclear power—and the far greater danger of government bureaucracy. A young newspaperman accidentally turns up the biggest story of his On a certain date in the not-too-distant future, there are no reservations in the maternity wards of any hospitals in New York. When the journalist’s AP office checks other cities, he discovers that this alarming state of affairs is not just in the United States, but in the entire world. A few months earlier, an accidental explosion in an atomic plant in Mississippi released an unknown form of radiation that turned the Earth’s men sterile—with one notable exception. Mr. Homer Adam, who was at the bottom of a lead mine in Colorado at the moment of the explosion, is the only man unaffected by the atomic rays. Naturally, he is in great demand, and sadly, it’s up to the government to decide what to do with him. One of literature’s first responses to the atomic bomb, Mr. Adam is "an artifact of classic science fiction—an equally biting satire and ominous warning to society—that will resonate deeply with readers today as it did when it was first published in 1946." (FantastyLiterature.com)

Forbidden Area is a tingling novel which deals with the near future: the atomic age pushed to its limits of insanity. Major Jesse Price is a flyer whose loss of an eye during the Korean War has grounded him. Too valuable to be released, he is made the Air Force representative to The Intentions of the Enemy Group, a top-secret high-level organization which is trying to keep a step ahead of enemy thinking. Major Price's adventures combine with those of the beautiful Katharine Hume of AEC. The secret data they share would raise goose-pimples on a polar bear. But together they find they must battle the terrifying indifference of the American public to news of its own impending destruction. The reader can see both sides of this struggle for world dominance and will have to catch his breath as Forbidden Area speeds to its terribly intense climax.

This is the story of the men of Dog Company, a tough, battered unit of U.S. Marines whose pride and courage alone made possible the long, bitter retreat from Changjin Reservoir to Hungnam on the Korean coast. It is an unforgettable epic of bravery.

From Pat Frank—author of the classic apocalyptic sci-fi novel Alas, Babylon—comes a political thriller set, and written, at the dawn of the Cold War, now back in print. In Pat Frank's riveting, insightful, and thought-provoking novel, young, outspoken Jeff Baker comes out of World War II determined to work for the State Department. When he lands his assignment in 1949, he becomes the third secretary of the US embassy in Budapest, an observation post behind the Iron Curtain. Jeff's experiences as a soldier fighting on a hill in Italy left him scarred and instilled in him a hatred for war in all forms—including the emerging Cold War. But when he is assigned to the "Atlantis Project," a top-secret mission for organizing an underground resistance in Hungary, he grapples with his beliefs and his loyalty to his superiors. And when he meets Rikki, a dancer in Budapest, he also finds himself torn between this new love and Susan Pickett—the love he left back home in Washington. As he becomes more immersed in the Atlantis Project, Jeff must decide what he is willing to risk for a chance to strike a blow for peace. Part cloak-and-dagger adventure, part high-voltage romance, and part biting satire, Pat Frank's writing and sense of detail takes readers back to a time of intrigue and uncertainty.

A carefully researched account of the Yorktown, her crew and her pilots. Rendezvous at Midway reads like a movie script as it builds to the climax in June, 1942, when U. S. navel forces crippled a superior Japanese fleet and ended the very real threat of an invasion of the United States from the Pacific.

Thermonuclear warfare and its consequences have been a primary concern of Pat Frank's ever since he wrote his first novel, Mr. Adam, published in 1946. Here he presents the essence of his sixteen years of thought and research on how to face such a disaster, psychologically and physically, what we can do to defend ourselves, and what our Civil Defense and other government agencies are doing to help us. The gist of his message is that all of us can multiply our chances for survival if we make some basic preparations, starting now, and that there are moral reasons why all of us should dig in. "To do so," he says, "is a definite deterrent against nuclear war. And should war come, the acts of individuals in sheltering themselves could mean saving half of those who otherwise would die." Here we learn what we might expect, should an attack come, from the moment the alerts sound through the first few days after we emerge from our shelters. Here is level-headed advice on how to protect ourselves from fallout and radioactivity, the basic food and medical supplies to have on hand, and many other practical considerations which have occurred to the author as he prepared his own household for the possibility of war and its aftermath. And although Mr. Frank is convinced that we should brace ourselves for nuclear attack, he also sees hope for peace as the stockpiles of nuclear weapons grow so tall that they become ludicrous, even to the people who erect them. "It is finally apparent," he says, "that the issue is not man against man, but man against the bomb."

"But I've got to go to Turkey to see my girl," Pat Frank said when he was offered an assignment in Korea by the UNKRA. "The world is round," the man pointed out, "Come home by way of Turkey.". So he did. And this is the story of what he saw and what he thought—in shattered Seoul, in Pusan, and Panmunjom, unarmed in guerrilla territory, and in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Turkey. -Quoted from the inside cover…

Pat Frank (May 5, 1908 – October 12, 1964) was the pen name of the American writer, newspaperman, and government consultant Harry Hart Frank. This collection contains all 5 of his novels including his most famous, the Apocalyptic Science Fiction novel, "Alas, Babylon". Novels included in the collection: Mr Adam An Affair of State Hold Back the Night Forbidden Area Alas, Babylon

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