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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 afte...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781568655819
ISBN-10: 1568655819
Publication Date: 11/1997
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Doubleday Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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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