By the Waters of Babylon

For other uses, see Rivers of Babylon (disambiguation).
First page of the story with its original title in The Saturday Evening Post in 1937

"By the Waters of Babylon" is a post-apocalyptic short story by American writer Stephen Vincent Benét, first published July 31, 1937, in The Saturday Evening Post as "The Place of the Gods".[1] It was republished in 1943 The Pocket Book of Science Fiction,[2] and was adapted in 1971 into a one-act play by Brainerd Duffield.[3]

  1. ^ The term post-apocalyptic paraphrases Izzo.[1]
    Date of publication is from "BENÉT, STEPHEN VINCENT" Archived 2007-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, in Miscellaneous Story Anthologies
    Benét changed the title when selecting works for Thirteen O'Clock. (Fenton, 1958)
  2. ^ "Book Information: Pocket Book of Science Fiction, the. Donald A. Wollheim, ed. (1943). Steven Jeffery / IBList.com, 2007". Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  3. ^ Description from the play catalog of Dramatic Publishing. Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
    The adaption is distinct from the 2003 play of the same name by Robert Schenkkan.