A Canticle for Leibowitz
Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a 1959 science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller Jr. It won the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and is considered a classic of post-apocalyptic fiction. Centuries after a nuclear war, monks of the Order of Leibowitz in the American Southwest preserve fragments of scientific knowledge. The novel spans three eras over many centuries, as civilization rebuilds, rediscovers science, and once again faces the threat of nuclear destruction.
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