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A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller Jr., Волтер Майкл Міллер-молодший · 1959 · Novel

Setting: far future (post-nuclear, centuries ahead)

Series: Saint Leibowitz — #1

Synopsis

Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and have saved the science texts and blueprints from destruction many times, also making beautifully illuminated copies. As the story opens to a world run on a basically fuedal lines, science is again becoming fashionable, as a hobby of rich men, at perhaps 18th or early 19th century level of comprehesion.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Hugo Award Winneraward:hugo_award=1961award:hugo_award=novelAmerican Science fictionapocalypsenuclear warcivilizationscience fictionchurch versus stateLong Now Manual for Civilization

ISBN: 9786057762214 — İthaki Yayınları, 2020, paperback

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isfdb_id: 2283

openlibrary_id: OL2626638W

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