Walter M. Miller Jr.
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| Title | : | A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz #1) |
| Author | : | Walter M. Miller Jr. |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 334 pages |
| Published | : | May 9th 2006 by HarperCollins EOS (first published October 1959) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Classics. Dystopia |
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Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature—a chilling and still provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future.In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, and tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.
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| Original Title: | A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| ISBN: | 0060892994 (ISBN13: 9780060892999) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | St. Leibowitz #1 |
| Characters: | Isaac Edward Leibowitz, Benjamin Eleazar bar Joshua |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award for Best Novel (1961), Locus Award for All-Time Best Novel (1975) |
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This was an intriguing book to read but the review was complicated by the fact I kept pursuing various trails....The story consists of three consecutive post-apocalyptic periods subsequent to a nuclear catastrophe, separated from that and from each other by centuries. Central to the plot is a monastery dedicated to the preservation of knowledge from our lost civilization during the dark ages that follow and to the memory of its founder, Isaac Edward Liebowitz, who, although apparently a JewWhat did the buzzards of Eden eat? If there even were buzzards in Eden. At least there will be no buzzards in Alpha Centauri. Unless the colonists bring buzzards with them ~ as Memento Mori. But it probably wouldnt make a difference. After all, it didnt the first time and it didnt the second time. Should we be so naive as to think that there wont be a third? That the colonists to other worlds will not repeat the mistakes of, not one past, but two? Hope is a virtue whose meaning confounds me, but
An early classic in the post-nuclear holocaust genre. I have read the book two or three times in the last 50 years.Miller was the prototypical one-hit wonder. Though he did write a lot of SF short stories before he published Canticle, he never wrote another novel. But hey, if you only publish one novel, and it's like this one? Not bad at all.I suppose I need to read it again, I can't really remember how it ends. Or maybe it doesn't really end, just fades away? Or returns endlessly.
I read this immediately following another well-known 1950s apocalyptic / nuclear holocaust novel "Alas, Babylon." That book, which I gave 4 stars to, was an excellent story and made no pretensions to literature; its prose was plain and transparent. The novel in question, "A Canticle for Leibowitz," turned out to be one of the most irritating kinds of genre sci-fi: one with ambitions to beauty and importance that falls far short of the mark.Now, I hate to put it that way, because I would never
I'm not a Christian, but I live in a Christian society, and it's all around me. Reviewing on Goodreads brings home how many authors can be classified as some kind of Christian apologist. I have very different reactions to them. At one end, I can't stand most of C.S. Lewis - I feel he's there with his foot in the door trying to sell me something, and I'm just hoping that I can get him to take his foot away without being openly rude. At the opposite end, I think Dante is a genius, and that The
I add this to my 'read' books having read it I don't know how many years ago (maybe even read it twice?), in Finnish translation. So what I write here is partly from memory, partly from having a look at my copy I recently bought.It's good post-apocalyptic scifi. The apocalypse being a nuclear war, a very likely threat around the time it was written (1959ish). A group of cloistered monks secretly nourishing knowledge of past and trying to help some survivors. From this the humanity slowly patches
This is essentially a book about knowledge.What happens to the human life that survives beyond the destruction of the world?In the ruins of what was once the United States of America, the Order of Saint Leibowitz works relentlessly to discover and preserve bits and pieces of knowledge from the time prior to the Flame Deluge. And when Brother Francis of Utah stumbles across a series of ancient writings by the holy Leibowitz himself, the discovery starts a chain of events that spans centuries of
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