A Canticle for Leibowitz
About this book
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and have saved the science texts and blueprints from destruction many times, also making beautifully illuminated copies. As the story opens to a world run on a basically fuedal lines, science is again becoming fashionable, as a hobby of rich men, at perhaps 18th or early 19th century level of comprehesion. A local lord, interested in science, comes to the monastery. What happens after that is an exquisitely told tale, stunning and extremely moving, totally different from any other After the Holocaust story
Subjects
- american fiction
- american literature
- american science fiction
- apocalypse
- award:hugo_award=1961
- award:hugo_award=novel
- christianity
- church versus state
- civilization
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, science fiction, general
- freedom of information
- hugo award winner
- knowledge management
- long now manual for civilization
- monastic and religious life
- monasticism and religious orders
- monks
- mutation (biology)
- new york times reviewed
- nuclear war
- nuclear warfare
- radioactive fallout survival
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- science fiction
- science fiction, history and criticism
- social aspects
- wandering jew