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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)

A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz #1) Paperback | Pages: 334 pages

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Title	:	A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz #1)
Author	:	Walter M. Miller Jr.
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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Maybe it was the time of year. Maybe it was because my copy of the book was in an advanced stage of acidification with the pages cracking and the glue failing so I feared taking this book with me on the subway (images of high school moments when a dropped binder in a busy hallway could destroy a years worth of work in about three seconds). Maybe I read this too slowly, taking too many days off in between each sitting. Maybe it was the stress and anxiety of working retail, yet again, for another

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

[9/10] ... for in those days, the Lord God had suffered the wise men to know the means by which the world itself might be destroyed ...He also suffered them to know how it might be saved, and, as always, let them chose for themselves... Walter M Miller published a single novel in his lifetime, so I guess he wanted to pour into it everything that was important in his life: his scientific training as an engineer, the trauma of destroying the ancient abbey of Monte Cassino from a bomber aircraft in

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 Jew

Odd as it sounds, this is hot toddy, warm blanket comfort food for me. Admittedly, thats not the typical description of this cynical, bleak-themed, post-apocalyptic SF classic. However, the easy, breezy style with which Miller explores his melancholy material manages to pluck smiles from me whenever I pick it up. This go around, I listened to the audio version which was recently released it was as mood brightening an experience as my previous read through.Despite dealing with dark, somber

Before reviewing this book, I read a little bit about the back story as well as listening to the SFBRP episode that covers it. These helped a lot. I'd had this on my post-apocalyptic reading list for quite some time, but had the wrong impressions of the book.1. I thought it was funny.Well, there are a few little chuckly bits at the beginning, as you see the monks try to make sense of our culture, only found in fragments. Grocery lists take on great meaning, as do diagrams of circuitry. But the

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.