By the Waters of Babylon

Influence on later work

Ayn Rand's 1937 novella Anthem may have been inspired by this story.[6]

In 1955 Edgar Pangborn wrote "The Music Master of Babylon",[7] a post-apocalyptic story told from the point of view of a pianist living alone in a ruined New York City, and after decades of total isolation encountering two youths from a new culture which had arisen in the world, who come exploring the ruined city. Pangborn depicted a different world than that of Benét, but referred to Benét's story in the title and in many of the story's details. Pangborn returned to that devastated world in his later writings, including the novel Davy.


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