A canticle for Leibowitz / a novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Walter M., Jr., 1923-1996.

Contributor:

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bantam seventy-five ; S2973.

Bantam seventy-five ; S2973

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear warfare--Fiction.

Nuclear warfare.

Freedom of information.

Knowledge management.

Monks.

New Southwest.

Monks--Southwest, New--Fiction.

Knowledge management--Fiction.

Freedom of information--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copies)

Physical Description:

278 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bantam, 1966.

Summary:

In the Utah desert, Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself, including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a bright ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness, a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unholy aftermath of the Flame Deluge. But as the spellbinding mystery at the core of this extraordinary novel unfolds, it is the search itself--for meaning, for truth, for love--that offers hope to a humanity teetering on the edge of an abyss.

Contents:

Part I: Fiat homo

Part II: Fiat lux

Part III: Fiat voluntas tua.

Notes:

6th printing.

Part of this book appeared in a different form in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 274180

OCLC:

982010236

Publisher Number:

S2973 Bantam Books