explorer / books · 1961
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1960 by J. B. Lippincott · 320 pages
Hugo · 1961
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Synopsis
After nuclear war, monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve scientific texts through centuries of social collapse. Across three periods spanning 1,800 years, civilization rises from barbarism to a new technological age and approaches another nuclear catastrophe.
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