I think reading this book and contemplating this book made me go forward in time to where the end of civilization occurred on the first timeline of September 11th 2001. So, because of reading this book and it firing up my intuition senses I realized I had to go try to get "God" in the Center of the Galaxy to help us not blow up Earth. So, in 1970 I tried to go there after Archangel Gabriel and God gave me the ability to Soul Travel. I used the Bi-location method to do this because you are less likely to die doing this than Astral projection where you might lose contact with your body through Astral projection which God taught me about the first time I walked outside of my body near Yucca Valley also around 1970 at my father's best friend's vacation house in the desert there while I was all alone there one night. Pretty Scary stuff because I wasn't trying to Astral project and I was sick at the time. So, when my arm went through the wall of the bathroom there alone in the desert I was pretty freaked out not realizing I was out of my body walking around.
Anyway, this book likely indirectly gave me the idea that I needed to find a way to save mankind from the end of civilization which actually happened on the first timeline before we built this 2nd one we all now live on. ON the first timeline civilization ended from September 11th 2001 until around 6000 AD. Every vestige of civilization was gone except for books and CDs and DVD's. DVD's were invented in 1995 by the way. But, all magnetic media was gone from huge EMPS all over the earth which permanently fried everything electrical above about 10 feet underground then on the first timeline. So, everything like hard drives and magnetic tapes were all gone from all mainframes and all computers and laptops and cell phones then above 10 feet underground. Cars didn't work either and no electrical generators worked and trucks didn't work either (unless they were military trucks and there were military people alive to drive them that had been modified to withstand EMPs) Electromagnetic pulses from nukes.
or here is a full book Summary I found:
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https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/alas/summary/
Alas, Babylon
At the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Mark Bragg, an officer in the Air Force, warns his brother Randy that nuclear war is imminent. Mark, who lives in Omaha, sends his wife, Helen, and his children, Ben Franklin and Peyton, to live with Randy in the isolated Florida town of Fort Repose. While he waits for them to arrive, Randy warns his friends, including his neighbors, the Henrys, and his girlfriend, Lib McGovern. He begins to stockpile food, and picks up Helen and her children at the airport, as the radio reports that tensions are escalating between the two superpowers. The next morning, war breaks out, and nuclear weapons destroy all of Florida's major cities. Washington is also destroyed, and a low-level Cabinet official becomes President. Having lost all power and communication with the rest of the country, Fort Repose is completely isolated.
Disorder prevails in the small town. Randy's best friend, the local doctor Dan Gunn is beaten up by drug addicts, who ransack his clinic; the local police chief is killed; the bank president, Edgar Quisenberry, kills himself. But Randy and his friends, who all eventually come to live with him in his house on River Road, manage to survive and maintain a kind of order in their lives. Randy hooks up a supply of fresh water for his house and his neighbors, and the Henry farm provides food, as does the nearby river. Dan continues to travel around the town seeing patients, doing the best he can with limited medical supplies. A crisis occurs when he discovers that a number of people are suffering from radiation poisoning, acquired from irradiated jewelry that a man named Porky Logan brought back from near a contaminated city. Dan and Randy handle the crisis together. They collect the jewelry and bury it, along with Porky Logan's body, in a lead-lined coffin. When the townsfolk refuse to help bury the coffin, Randy brandishes a gun and forces them to do so.
Randy's authority in the town becomes more and more respected. A radio announcement declares that former Army Reserve officers are to assume responsibility for martial law in isolated areas, and Randy is a former Reserve officer, so he begins to post decrees and take responsibility for law enforcement. When a group of bandits attack and brutally beat Dan Gunn, he collects a posse and hunts them down — on the same afternoon that he and Lib are married. He and his friend kill three of the bandits and hang the other, although his neighbor, Malachai Henry, is shot and dies.
The town struggles through the summer, surviving a brief shortage of fish, and Randy solves a crisis involving a lack of salt. He combs the diary kept by his ancestor, who founded the town, and finds a reference to a nearby pool with a plentiful supply of salt. In autumn, government planes begin flying over the town, and a helicopter lands, carrying Paul Hart, a military man and friend of Randy's from before the war. He tells them that the country is still trying to restore basic services, and that centuries may pass before the contaminated regions become clean. He also confirms that Mark died in the war, meaning that Helen is free to marry Dan, with whom she has fallen in love. He offers to take them out of Fort Repose, but they all prefer to remain in the community they have rebuilt.
