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A Canticle For Leibowitz
A Canticle For Leibowitz
Author: Walter M. Miller, Jr.
In the Utah desert, Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself, including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a bright ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness, a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unhol...  more »
ISBN: 193916
Publication Date: 1959
Pages: 320
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Publisher: J. P. Lippincott Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Fascinating, futuristic novel depicting the rebirth of humanity and society after the earth's devastation. The Library Journal calls it "exciting, imaginative," and "unconditionally recommended."
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Good book about the continuation and protection of knowledge in a post-apocalyptic world.Leibowitz is an engineer that died in a nuclear holocaust and is up for sainthood from a medieval-like abbey of a Catholic church.

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