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A canticle for Leibowitz : a novel / by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Miller Canticle
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Walter M., Jr., 1923-1996.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Science fiction.
- Monastic and religious life--Fiction.
- Monastic and religious life.
- Physical Description:
- 320 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia ; New York : J. B. Lippincott Co., 1960, c1959.
- Summary:
- "Here is science fiction of the highest literary excellence and thematic intelligence. A monastery founded by the scientist Liebowitz is discovered decades after an atomic war. In the first part of the book a young novice in the monastery is the protagonist; in the second part we see scholars in a new period of enlightment; and in the final section we observe man's proclivity for repeating mistakes and the apparent inevitability of history's repeating itself." Shapiro. Fic for Youth, 3d edition.
- Contents:
- Fiat homo
- Fiat lux
- Fiat voluntas tua.
- Notes:
- Hugo Award for Best Novel, 1961.
- Cited in:
- Fiction core collection. 16th ed., p. 614
- OCLC:
- 1451434
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