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A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book)
A book by Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller, Jr., first published in 1960. Based on three short stories Miller contributed to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, it is the only novel … see full wiki
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Walter M. Miller Jr.
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Spectra
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I probably read this at least 20 years ago. I honestly don't remember much about it except that it was very interesting. Its a book I would like to reread.
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Fantastic "allegory of our times" (our times if you lived through the cold war). This is a seminal post-apocalyptic tale and a book that should be on every SF reader's list.
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review by fatherz.
March 12, 2004
. . .with those who consider "A Canticle for Leibowitz" as the single greatest Science Fiction novel ever written.Imagine a world, devastated by nuclear holocaust. Imagine such a world further devastated by a "Simplification" in which all traces of learning are eradicated. The only vestige of civilization to survive is the Church. In the desert, a group of monks spend their entire lives trying to save, reconstruct, and restore knowledge to the world -- but to what end?Filled with humor, pathos, … more
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I dislike post-apocalypse stories--possibly unreasonably so--because of past experience. For every Alas Babylon, there were real dogs like The Postman or The Day After. This is the main reason why I had never read Walter M. Miller's classic novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. Since it kept appearing on my Alexandria Digital Literature recommendation list, and several people had expressed amazement that I had never read it, I decided to overcome my bias, and at least give it a try. It started out bad--the … more
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