A Canticle for Leibowitz (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter M. Miller
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: Around the year 2500, 3174, and 3781
- Setting: The monastery of the Blessed Leibowitz, somewhere between Salt Lake City and El Paso
- Principal Characters: Benjamin Eleazar, Brother Francis of Utah, Abbot Arkos, Thon Taddeo, Abbot Paulo, Mrs. Grales, Abbot Zerchi
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Science or scientists, War, Wit or humor, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Southwest, Christ figures or saviors, End of the world, Saints or sainthood, Euthanasia or right to die, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Nuclear warfare or weapons
- Locales: El Paso, TX, Salt Lake City, UT
The Novel
The Leibowitz of this novel’s title was, the reader is told, a technician engaged in weapons development at the time of the nuclear war which destroyed all civilization in America and in the rest of the world. A natural reaction of the survivors of this holocaust was to turn on all scientists, on all fragments of science, and to destroy them for being in some degree responsible for the devastation that had taken place. Leibowitz, however, though repentant of his past, received permission from the pope to form a new monastic order of Albertus Magnus, whose role would...
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