Alas, Babylon Characters

When he first pops up on our radar, Randy Bragg is a womanizing, day-drinking, failed politician who would be rightfully classified as a loser…if he wasn't also kind of a hunk. By the end of Alas...

No, he's not a Founding Father caught in a time vortex. Sorry to disappoint. Don't underestimate young Ben F. Bragg, however. He's a tougher cookie than you realize.First off, Ben Franklin is as sm...

Helen Bragg is defined by motherhood. Part of this might be due to a slightly un-woke perspective on gender from author Pat Frank. Still, it makes some sense. After all, what else can a parent do w...

Marky Mark might get less page-time than his funky bunch, but he's one of Alas, Babylon's most important characters. Without him, everybody else would've either been incinerated by nuclear explosio...

Young Peyton Bragg wants to be a hero, but everyone won't stop treating her like a zero. She's like Rodney Dangerfield transported into the body of a little girl: she gets no respect.Gender roles c...

He might have a name better fitting a mustachioed action movie lead than a small-town doctor, but Dan Gunn is number one in our hearts. As you can imagine, he's pretty much the most important dude...

As a poor, African-American man, Malachai Henry isn't respected much by the dominant social order of 1950s, small-town Florida. But after The Day? He's a model citizen.Despite the prejudices of his...

At first, it can be easy to underestimate Lib McGovern. She seems like some rich, spoiled Yankee who lounges around her retired parents' McMansion all day. But, as she proves over the course of Ala...

Bill McGovern goes from being a bored, depressed retiree to having a pep in his step like he hasn't in decades. And all it takes is the nuclear apocalypse. A bit inconvenient, sure, but you can't a...