A 60th anniversary reissue of Walter M. Miller's timeless SF classic, featuring a striking new cover design
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A 60th anniversary reissue of Walter M. Miller's timeless SF classic, featuring a striking new cover design
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The classic science fiction novel of a future dark age and humanity's new renaissance
It is a new dark age of fear and ignorance.An atomic Flame Deluge has ravaged the earth, and humanity's survivors have turned against science. In the depths of a hellish desert, the Order of St Leibowitz preserves the few remnants of mankind's knowledge. Then a humble monk makes a miraculous discovery of several artefacts - including a note written by blessed St Leibowitz himself, which reads: Pound pastramican krautsix bagels- bring home for EmmaCould this holiest of relics hold the key to humanity's salvation? A Canticle For Leibowitz is a sharp, satirical examination of humanity that is chilling, provocative and endlessly imaginative - an undisputed science fiction classic.Critic Reviews
“An extraordinary novelAngry, eloquent . . . a terrific storyAn exciting and imaginative story . . . Unconditionally recommendedProdigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim”
An extraordinary novel
Angry, eloquent . . . a terrific storyAn exciting and imaginative story . . . Unconditionally recommendedProdigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grimAbout the Author
Walter M. Miller served as a radio operator and gunner in the US Army Air Corps during the Second World War. He was involved in the assault on the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino, the experience of which later led him to write his classic SF novel A Canticle For Leibowitz. Walter M. Miller died in 1996.
The classic science fiction novel of a future dark age and humanity's new renaissance It is a new dark age of fear and ignorance.An atomic Flame Deluge has ravaged the earth, and humanity's survivors have turned against science. In the depths of a hellish desert, the Order of St Leibowitz preserves the few remnants of mankind's knowledge. Then a humble monk makes a miraculous discovery of several artefacts - including a note written by blessed St Leibowitz himself, which reads: Pound pastrami can kraut six bagels - bring home for Emma Could this holiest of relics hold the key to humanity's salvation? A Canticle For Leibowitz is a sharp, satirical examination of humanity that is chilling, provocative and endlessly imaginative - an undisputed science fiction classic.
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