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A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself.
It is a follow-up to Miller's 1959 book A Canticle for Leibowitz. Miller wrote the majority of the novel before his death in 1996; the rest was completed based on Miller's notes and outlines by Terry Bisson. The novel is set chronologically some eighty years after the events of the second part of A Canticle for Leibowitz, "Fiat Lux" (c. 3254 AD).
It predates many similar novels including Alas, Babylon (1959), A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960), and The Last Ship [17] (1988). It is itself predated, however by The Machine Stops (1909) and René Barjavel's Ashes, Ashes (Ravage, 1943), among others. As one reviewer notes, "there are no mutants, no warring tribes.
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"And the Light is Risen" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1956; revised into A Canticle for Leibowitz [9]) "The Last Canticle" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1957; revised into A Canticle for Leibowitz [9]) "The Lineman" (1957) "Vengeance for Nikolai" (1957, also known as "The Song of Marya")
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. The Captive's War series by James S. A. Corey. namely, The Mercy of Gods and Livesuit; Carnival by Elizabeth Bear; A Case of Conscience by James Blish; Cat Country by Lao She; Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (the sequel is The Naked Sun) Celestial Matters by ...
In the book it clearly states that Leibowitz originally sought shelter from the mobs by hiding out at a Christian monastary. Then, when he became convinced that his wife was really dead, he took monastic orders, and became a priest, at which point he sought and received permission from the Church to found the new order in the southwestern desert.