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  		   Posted 6/10/2008 8:13 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Filling in one of those long-standing gaps in my SF reading... Last week I finally read A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Really powerful stuff--it's one of those stories that lingers in your mind after you finish it. Funny, haunting, beautiful and terrifying all at once. Highly recommended.

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  		   Posted 6/10/2008 10:04 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Love this book myself. I plan on rereading it soon and offering a review at my site -- the best thing about doing reviews is it gives me an excuse to go back and read old favorites.

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  		   Posted 6/11/2008 11:32 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Leibowitz ia great! Somehow totally pessimistic but not unhopeful. A very Cold War book, too, it seems to me.


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  		   Posted 6/11/2008 12:36 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

That was a great book, but don't bother with the sequel...

 

 
 
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  		   Posted 6/11/2008 6:32 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I never knew there was a sequel.

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  		   Posted 6/12/2008 10:43 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I think the sequel came much after the fact, and to a pretty luke-warm reception (note: none of this is fact checked so I could be completely off base). While it has been 20 years since I read it, I remember it being a very thought provoking book, especially concerning the conflict between religion and science and how it played out over the course of the book's three sections. I also enjoyed the way the expanse of time covered in the novel allowed you to see the evolution of the memory and interpretation of Leibowitz.

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  		   Posted 6/12/2008 1:23 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I thought the sequel was written by somebody else with permission of the Miller family. I could be wrong of course.

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I just did a Wiki and it appears a little of both. The bulk had already been written, but was finished by another and published posthumously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Leibowitz_and_the_Wild_Horse_Woman

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  		   Posted 6/12/2008 3:24 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I read something about this years ago. "Liebowitz," was Miller's first novel. Everyone loved it. It was a best seller. And Miller swore he'd never write another book, which he did. Never wrote another novel. I have no idea why.

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