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A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Author: Walter M. Miller
Deep in the Utah desert, Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has miraculously discovered the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself, including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness, a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unholy after...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780553209907
ISBN-10: 0553209906
Publication Date: 3/1982
Pages: 313
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3.8 stars, based on 25 ratings
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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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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