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Book Review of A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, Bk 1)

A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, Bk 1)
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Down the long centuries afte the Flame Deluge scoured the earth clean, the monks of the Order of St. Lebowitz the Engineer kept alive the ancient knowledge. In their monastery in the Utah desert, they prserved the perecious keepsakes of their founder: the blessed blueprint, the sacred shoppping list, and the holy shrine of Fallout Shelter.
Watched over by an immortal wanderer, they witnessed humanity's rebirth from ashes, and saw reenacted the eternal drama of the strggle between light and darkbess,life and death.