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A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book)

by Walter M Miller

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In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter.

In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself—for meaning, for truth, for love—that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashes.

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“Extraordinary ... chillingly effective.” Time

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“An exciting and imaginative story ... Unconditionally recommended.” Library Journal

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“An extraordinary novel ... Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim, profound both intellectually and morally, and, above all ... simply such a memorable story as to stay with the reader for years.” Chicago Tribune

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“An exciting and imaginative story ... Unconditionally recommended.” Library Journal

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The winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel, Miller's bestselling work is a true landmark of 20th-century literature--a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future.

About the Author

Walter M. Miller, Jr. grew up in the American South and enlisted in the Army Air Corps a month after Pearl Harbor. He spent most of World War II as a radio operator and tail gunner, participating in more than fifty-five combat sorties, among them the controversial destruction of the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino, the oldest monastery in the Western world. Fifteen years later he wrote A Canticle for Leibowitz. The sequel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, followed after nearly forty years.

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James Whelan, December 29, 2006 (view all comments by James Whelan)
How good is this book? A chance web encounter with a (Parnassus) journal editor, Herbert Leibowitz, gleaned this title from depths of memory. Once you have read this book, it will be forever embedded in 'consummate' zone of your memory. Unforgettable!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780553273816
Author:
Miller, Walter M
Publisher:
Spectra Books
Author:
Miller, Walter
Author:
Miller, Walter M.
Author:
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Science fiction
Copyright:
Edition Number:
New Bantam ed.
Series:
Bantam Spectra Book
Publication Date:
February 1961
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Pages:
338
Dimensions:
688x426x99 40

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