About this title: Set between the second and third sections of "A Canticle for Leibowitz", a millennium has past since the apocalyptic end of the 20th century. The world is governed by the constantly struggling forces of church and state, and the scattered remains of the nuclear holocaust are revered as holy shrines. A monk named Blacktooth joins with Cardinal ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Spectra
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553107043ISBN:0553107046
Description: Very good. 1997; Hardcover; No notes/hiliting; Bumped corners; Clean pages; Lightly edgeworn dustcover; No dog-ears; Strong binding. read more
Edition: Bk Club ed.
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553107043ISBN:0553107046
Description: VG in VG DJ / in mylar taped around cover / clean / very. Slight edgewear / text clean / tight / nice ex library copy / The sequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Spectra, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553107043ISBN:0553107046
Description: Very Good in V jacket. 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches. First edition/first printing (full number line) in very good unclipped jacket. Very light edgewear to jacket; mark to inside page; light reading wear; some bent pages; otherwise book is in great shape. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 2000
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. (120405) SF Book Club edition Hardback Book is in Near Mint cond, with dj in Very Fine+ cond with very light wear at corners. hardback. 448 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553107043ISBN:0553107046
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BCE hard cover with dust jacket, FINE/NEAR FINE. Trace of edgewear to jacket. Book is clean and crisp. New mylar cover. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553107043ISBN:0553107046
Description: Very Good to Fine in Very Good jacket. Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. DJ has very light edge wear with light sun fading by spine. Text and pages are clean and bright with no markings or turned corners noted. read more
Description: [0-553-10704-6] [date not indicated], 2nd printing. (Hardcover)...Near very good in dust jacket.......Cocked....(Science Fiction) read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553107043ISBN:0553107046
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book club edition hard cover with jacket. Trace of edgewear to jacket. Book is clean and crisp. New mylar cover. Jacket art by Matt Zumbo. read more
Description: Reading Copy or Better (a more c. Hardback: Bantam: 10704: 1st 11/1997: Reading Copy or Better (a more complete description will be provided upon request): Dust Jacket: Cover Artist: Zumbo, Matt / Youll, Jamie S. Warren. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553107043ISBN:0553107046
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0553107046 434 pages. Slight shelfwear. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553107043ISBN:0553107046
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Quarter bound in orange cloth. First printing. Clean, crisp copy. 434 pp. Dust jacket, with tiny closed tear to spine head, offered in new mylar cover. Jacket art by Matt Zumbo. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553107043ISBN:0553107046
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. HB/DJ, NF/VG, 434 pp. DJ has 1/8" tear at front bottom corner on the inside part of the flap, rubbing on 6 of 8 corners of DJ. Book has top of spine pushed inward a little. Isolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. George suffers a crisis of faith, torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, between the Holy Virgin and visions of the Wild Horse Woman of his people. Blacktooth sets out on a journey across a landscape still ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Orbit, London
Date Published: 1997
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1 85723 013. Dust jacket VG; clean, intact, no fading, no damage. Light shelf-wear. Hardcover excellent. Contents very good/excellent. Pages are clean and tidy throughout. No foxing or damage. Just a hint of yellowing towards the edges of the pages. Some movement to the spine but all is secure. Pictures available on request.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 403 pages. read more
""St. Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman" is the sequel to Walter M Miller Jr's "A Canticle for Leibowitz," a post-apocalyptic take on the relationship between religion and empirical science. "St. Leibowitz" actually occurs sometime between the beginning and the end of the previous book; the world has repopulated itself, to a point, and matters have come to a head between three regions of what once was America. One one side is a christian military dictatorship, on the other the Church, and in between are the Nomadic tribes of the Plains who see no conflict between converting to Christianity and holding to their traditional beliefs. It's difficult to go more into the plot than that in a brief review, but the conflict is viewed by the reader through the person of a young monk unsure of his devotion to his order. He finds himself working for a Cardinal with more in his plans than prayers for peace, and watches as conflict escalates to war. Ultimately the novel seems to be trying to make a statement about the nature of religious plurality and the rock and hard place of theocracy vs autocracy, but at this point I can't be sure of what that statement is. This is not to say that the book fails in its goal, merely that it is a complicated work of fiction with a lot to say. It made me think deeply about the cost of religious strife and the struggle for religious freedom, even if I have not yet come to any conclusions."
"A big disappointment compared to "A Canticle for Leibowitz". By itself, it could be considered a decent story, but partnered with Canticle, it just doesn't measure up. Canticle had a message; Wild Horse Woman seemed to be a campfire story in comparison."
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