A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr. · 1960
Three centuries of post-nuclear civilization, with monks of the Order of Leibowitz preserving fragments of a destroyed world. Miller's meditation on cyclical catastrophe and institutional memory is the most Catholic and most bleak of all SF novels.
The case against
Three novellas stapled into a novel, with the cast wiped out every six hundred years, so no one you care about survives a section. Untranslated Latin salts every page. And the final third trades story for a theological debate on euthanasia conducted at sermon length. Miller's bleak Catholic irony is the point; it is also the homework.
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