vntg 1960's Walter Miller A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ post-apocalyptic classis

Description: Sold as reading copies, expect all flaws: see the pictures. If you have a choice please let us know. In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Centuries after a nuclear war devastated the Earth, Brother Francis Gerard of Leibowitz Abbey is on a Lenten fast in the Utah desert when he uncovers an ancient fallout survival shelter containing puzzling clues into pre-Flame Deluge culture. Some of the findings may even have belonged to martyred “booklegger” Isaac Edward Leibowitz himself, a priest who dedicated his life to saving knowledge for future generations. But will Brother Gerard’s discovery help humankind avoid another self-inflicted catastrophe?Almost a half century after it was first published, A Canticle for Leibowitz hasn't lost any of its megaton punch—if anything, Miller’s words relating to humankind’s propensity for self-destruction have taken on a kind of eerie aura of prophecy: “Is the species congenitally insane, Brother? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing?” A fascinating and paradoxical novel by an equally paradoxical man, A Canticle for Leibowitz is undeniably one of the best science fiction novels of all time. Mary Doria Russell sums it up perfectly: “You’ll be different when you finish it.”

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