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Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
ISBN-13:9780553209907ISBN:0553209906
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Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
ISBN-13:9780553209907ISBN:0553209906
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Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
ISBN-13:9780553209907ISBN:0553209906
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780553209907ISBN:0553209906
Description: Good. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller. Bantam, 1982. Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dust Jacket: No jacket. NOTES: 9th Printing. Showing some exterior wear/creasing, contents are overall clean with no owner markings. read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
ISBN-13:9780553209907ISBN:0553209906
Description: Very Good. 0553209906 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Description: Good. B000CSXSW2 Later mass market paperback same content exactly-original text has never changed, Standard Used Condition, some cover wear, different cover, No writing or Highlighting, some minor spine creases, minor age tan-well bound and solid, sold for content. read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
ISBN-13:9780553209907ISBN:0553209906
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Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, NEW YORK, NY.
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780553209907ISBN:0553209906
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, NY
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780553209907ISBN:0553209906
Description: Good Plus. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. G+. Thoroughly clean, tight text has slight fading; covers have a light spine & reading creases. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780553209907ISBN:0553209906
Description: Good. Good binding with 313 pages. Spine has been creased. Cover has a picture of a man with a helmet with a cross on it. May have some shelf wear. No orders from customers outside of the United States please. read more
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"One of the all-time great science fiction "future histories", as well as of some theological significance. A wonderfully readable history of the world from one nuclear apocalypse to the next nuclear apocalypse, focusing on the life of a monastery which is concerned with how to preserve basic human knowledge (and humanity) through the catastrophes. A book about society and ideas rather than about violence - reflective rather than space opera. I'm Jewish, and the book made me more sympathetic to some of the (to me) bizarre practices of the Roman Catholic Church. I recommend the book highly."
"Hauntingly beautiful. I loved the cyclical nature of the world. Death, rebirth and ultimately destruction occurring over a plodding time frame, where each life is a drop in the bucket of generations.
I enjoyed the book because it dealt with a future of nuclear annihilation. Most stories dealing with fallout seem to focus on the aftermath, with people who still remembered a different life, life before the holocaust. In A Canticle for Leibowitz the flame deluge is a distant memory remembered only in an oral tradition. Culture and technology evolve slowly and steadily with each subsequent generation building on the shoulders of the giants that came before."
"This wonderful 1959 classic about the aftermath of a nuclear war is crammed with "history as the future" commentary. As happened at the end of the Roman Empire, monks gather and store the remnants of civilization during the new Dark Age. The Order of Saint Leibowitz the Engineer in the Utah desert is the guardian of the saintly founder's blessed blueprint, sacred shopping list and the holy shrine of Fallout Shelter. The book is divided into three parts. Each of which is 600 years later providing us with a glimpse of mankind's "progress.""
"Three novellas make up this sci fi classic, that is as much about religion as science. In fact, it's probably the most sympathetic to organized religion of any sci fi book I've ever read, addressing questions of the course of science when it's not tied to any moral or ethical structures. That makes it sound boring, and it's actually a pretty lively read.
Walter Miller was in the air force during World War II. He was in the squad that bombed Monte Casino in Italy, the destruction of which was the inspiration for this book. Another interestingly imagined world built on war experiences."
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