science fiction
A Canticle For Leibowitz
Centuries after nuclear war, monks in a desert abbey preserve copied books as civilization flickers, repeats and questions its cycle of rise and ruin.Recommended By(2)
"Reading A Canticle for Leibowitz. The prospect of nuclear war was so much more evocative for authors of that era than climate change today." - John Carmack
"One of my favorite scifi books won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1961, called A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr. It’s a remarkably literate book, with memorable characters and action." - Alan Cooper