A good post-apocalytical story about how society is rediscovering the science that has been secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of Saint Isaac Leibowitz. It goes through many years of what these Monks do, how they preserve the kno...
ETA 09/03/13: Cloud Atlas to the reading path, below.-----I was conceived somewhere late summer/early fall of 1963, roundabout the time the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed by the US, UK and Soviet Union; close to a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis and about two months before JFK's assassinatio...
This was a very interesting book. It is a major warning of how things could turn out if we are careless with our nuclear weapons and foreign affairs. I liked how the stories fell together, but was not fond of the jumping around that frequently appeared to occur throughout the book. Then again, that ...
"Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear" quoth the abbot Zerchi in the final part of this book, not long before we are to find out humanity, in contrast, seems quite capable and determined to impose on its self that which it is not prepared to bear.Are we in an endless...
An amazing novel (or trilogy of novelas)!This book encapsulated many things that hit home to me: anxiety about the future (and far-future), civilization rebooting, the Church as protector and guardian of humans and human heritage, musing about Biblical characters, and if we start colonizing other pl...
Crazy complex, a meditation on humanity and civilization. Divided into three parts, the first after what seems to have been a nuclear war, the second partway into a time of political consolidation and the rise of nation-states, but also the rebirth of scholarship, and the third at a toe-to-toe arms ...
By my estimate, A Canticle for Leibowitz ranges in time from a century to roughly 15 centuries in the future, but when you realize it was originally published in 1959, it becomes clear just how informed by the Cold War and the post-nuclear nightmares of the mid-20th century this novel is. Centered o...
A great indictment against the paranoia and war-mongering infecting politics, 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' is as powerful today as I imagine it was when it was first published 50 years ago. It has had its fair share of imitators, but I haven't read the book that has touched on these themes with such h...
Considered a classic for post-apocalyptic fiction, "A Canticle for Leibowitz" is a study in the timelessness of human nature and the folly of expecting that nature to change."A Canticle for Leibowitz" is a set of three vignettes, told at different periods after the Earth is destroyed in a post-WWII ...
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