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... read in the more modern stuff. 1984 - Orwell At the Mountains of Madness - Lovecraft Brave New World - Huxley Canticle of Leibowitz - Miller Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut Childhood's End - Clarke Day of the Triffids - Wyndham Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Dick Dune ...

... Wells Moon Pool : A. Merrit Atta : Francis Bellamy West of Eden : Harry Harrison Eternity Road : Jack McDevitt A Canticle for Leibowitz : Walter M. Miller, Jr. Left Hand of Darkness : Ursula le Guin This Alien Shore : C. S. Friedman Alas, Babylon : Pat Frank Dhalgren : Sa ...

... as all twelve volumes of his "solar cycle" John Kessel's Good News from Outer Space Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz: a favorite since high school Patricia McKillip's Fools Run, which as far as I know is her only science fiction novel. Also her Riddlemaste ...

... Keyes The Dispossessed – Ursula Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula Le Guin I Am Legend – Richard Matheson A Canticle For Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller Jnr Gateway - Heechee – Frederik Pohl Man Plus – Frederik Pohl Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon Star Maker - ...

... (1954) Jack Vance - Big Planet (1957) James Blish - A Case Of Conscience (1958) Walter M. Miller Jr - A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) Frank Herbert - Dune (1965) Keith Roberts - Pavane (1968) Philip K. Dick - Ubik (1969) Arkady Strugatsky and Bori ...

... Aldous Huxley * The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin * Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler * A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller Jr. * Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson * Dune, Frank Herbert * Hyperion, Dan Simmons * Red Mars, Kin Stanley ...

... - Have Space-Suit -- Will Travel Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint Pat Frank - Alas, Babylon Walter M. Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan Algis Budrys - Rogue Moon Theodore Sturgeon - Venus Plus X Brian W. Aldiss - Hothouse J.G. Ballard ...

... Cain Hot Water Music, Charles Bukowski My Life in Heavy Metal, Steve Almond Jazz, Toni Morrison A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller

... July), Childhood's End (#73, August), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (#74, December) are all teed up thus far. I hope A Canticle for Liebowitz, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Day of the Triffids follow next year, although if they're already recycling the previously published ...

It took me 2 weeks, but I finally finished no. 36: A Canticle for Leibowitz. I had this book on my wish list for some time and I was really looking forward to reading it, but it turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment. Even though it had its moments, it was not the book I expected it to be. ...

Finally, I finished A Canticle for Leibowitz. It definitely had its moments, but overall it just wasn't my book. Way too much religion and Latin, both of which I'm not into. And now I get to pick a new book from mount TBR. I love this part! What to choose, what to choose... ^^

A Canticle for Leibowitz was originally published in 'Catholic Digest in the 1950's. As someone who remembers the mass before Vatican 2 I have to say that the original audience would have been familiar with Latin. At that time writing about the Catholic Church without Latin would have been as ...

... school (Dutch, English, French and German). Some schools also have Greek and Latin. I never took Latin and now I'm reading A Canticle for Leibowitz which is loaded with Latin frases and it's sooo annoying! The author doesn't explain or imply what is said and I feel like I'm missing a lot. If I ...

I'm reading A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller. I was really looking forward to reading it, it comes highly recommended here on LT, but I can't seem to get a grip on it.

... fiction and speculative fiction, Father Elijah and its series by Michael D. O'Brien and (of course) the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz. Any of the books in the Don Camillo series by Giovanni Guareschi, and Guareschi's memoir as well. The Comforters by Muriel Spark. ...

Found this thread, thought I might be able to add a few books: A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr. - A story of a monastery after a nuclear apocalypse, which spend their lives trying to preserve the past for the benefit of the future. Excellent story, has some good moral debates, ...

... good is that they contain recognisable people with whom most readers can identify. Whereas I didn't get on too well with Canticle for Leibowitz as there were too few reference points in the characters or places for me to feel the full chilling effect that a good post-apocalyptic novel should ...

... my “Desert Island Books,” if you will. That said, here are my five science fiction titles in alphabetical order: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger ...

I'm not really all that much of a re-reader in this genre. The one that I really have read several times, though, is A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Just finished: 24. A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. I was very excited to finally get around to this science-fiction classic. I enjoyed it, especially the middle section, Fiat Lux, which moved along at a clip and had the most profound passages of the book. I was ...

... lists the following as the top 15: Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein Dune messiah by Frank Herbert A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert Snow crash by Neal Stephenson The ...

... attempts to examine religion and religious ideas through the medium of SF. Some good examples, in my opinion, are A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. and Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny. Would appreciate some more suggestions from the posters on here.

... way into The Yiddish Policeman's Union. > 99 I'm enough of a freak that untranslated Latin is making me want to read A Canticle for Liebowitz even more.

... back to the Old World and is so entwined with the history of New York. A real cover-to-cover treat. In progress: A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

... Review Books Read: 47. Bangkok 8 by John Burdett - seller 48. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - keeper 49. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. - seller 50. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay - KEEPER 51. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus, vol. 1 - ...

I originally read A Canticle for Leibowitz in high school as a class assignment (also got to read the original Pierre Boulle Planet of the Apes - fairly progressive for the 70's). Both are good reads (the Apes novel is much better than the first movie or more recent adaptation, though the first ...

I want to put another mention in for A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.. It covered a future after a nuclear war, where survivors in a monastery struggle to preserve the knolwedge of their forefathers. There are so many things I liked about this - the criticism of nuclear ...

Finished A Canticle for Leibowitz today. It's a story about a monastery that tries to preserve the records of the past after a nuclear holocaust, but it is so much more than that. Only complaint is that the book should have an appendix that details the latin phrases in the book, but otherwise, I ...

... Featuring Integrated Text and Full-Color Images by James Wasserman, Eva Von Dassow, Dr. Ogden Goelet, and Carol Andrews A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Encountering Ecclesiastes: A Book for Our Time by James Limburg

Just in from Bol.com: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller I'm very excited, because they both came highly recommended on LT and they were both on the top of my wish list! Now just have to find the time to finish my current read and ...

A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr The Forever War, Joe Hadleman Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Apart from that, room for another bookcase.

I remember A Canticle for Leibowitz having a big impact on me when I read it in college about 40 years ago. I was quite enthusiastic about recommending it to friends who also read SF.

I finished A Canticle For Leibowitz on the flight out. My review is below, x-posted from my reading list: The story of humanity's rise and fall after a nuclear disaster changes the face of the world. Like the best classic science fiction, this book is about ideas. Miller thrusts us into ...

49. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Water M. Miller Jr. - seller The story of humanity's rise and fall after a nuclear disaster changes the face of the world. Like the best classic science fiction, this book is about ideas. Miller thrusts us into one hell of a "what if" scenario and runs ...

... is pointing only to vol. 3, but I got the whole trilogy) Bled Dry by Erin McCarthy (one of my guilty pleasures) A Canticle for Lebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (I've heard lots about this title, but have never read it) Renegades Magic by Robin Hobb Then I went to Waldenb ...

... British mystery, 1940s, eccentric Brit stuff. Fluffy and fun until I can break through K&C. #25 - I remember reading A Canticle for Leibowitz in high school but not much about it. (no surprise there, I graduated HS in 1971).

A Canticle For Leibowitz is proving to be quite a good read, but with all my trip preparations I doubt I'll finish it today. It looks like it'll be coming on the plane with me. I also plan to return to some Guy Gavriel Kay over the next little bit. I figure I'll start with Sailing to Sar ...

#159, xicanti: Wow, I haven't thought about A Canticle for Lebowitz for decades! I loved that book.

... of his before I go. I might be better off just saving it for the plane. It's starting to look like I'll end up with A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.. It's one of my 888 books, and it's short enough that I should be able to polish it off in time to start some Ka ...

... familiar ground, without assuming a great deal of background knowledge. Timescape is a pretty good suggestion, as is A Canticle for Leibowitz (which is one of the few SF books that my generally non-SF-reading father really enjoyed). For my fifth I'm going to suggest a good strong ...

... Anyway here are my five Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr Timescape by Gregory Benford Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood These aren't my favourite books but between them ...

I know it I know it! I am so excited because I knew it right from the first quote. It's A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller jr! I studied that book for my Apocalyptic Science Fiction course in university.

... This shows up in Lucifer's Hammer, also, as different surviving groups have markedly different characters and goals. Even A Canticle for Liebowitz supports this, as it was only a very small group of survivors of the original holocaust that tried to preserve knowledge, while the great majority ...

If you like The Day of the Triffids I would recommend A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.. A classis post apocalyptic. More contemporary science fiction I've enjoyed lately: Metropolitan by Walter Williams. The Wess'har Wars series by Karen Traviss. Carnival ...

... disaster! Their children were illiterate. Wouldn't literacy be one thing they would strive hard to maintain? The Canticle for Leibowitz approach makes more sense to me - with literacy being revered and knowledge passed down for generations until the skills to use it have redeveloped. ...

... The earlier sequences had some of the flavor of Gene Wolfe's The Devil in a Forest, and also reminded me a bit of A Canticle for Leibowitz. The overall story, with the present and past portions, called to mind Connie Willis's Fire Watch and Doomsday Book.

... of "Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy." It also has links to other such sites. I haven't read a single one except for Canticle for Liebowitz which I read so many years ago I can't remember it (but want to reread it for that very reason). Some of the titles on the list look pretty ...

... an android lover. I'm not as quite as clever as you thought. Sorry :-) Yes, Terry Bisson wrote the sequel to The Canticle for Liebowitz. It was titled Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman. Science fiction writer. Penury. The two pretty much go hand-in-hand. Except for ...

My favorite in eighth grade was Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.

... after reading The Terror. But I'm not sure I have enough steam to tackle anymore of the Hyperion series. I've also got A Canticle for Leibowitz and and The Singularity is Near.

1. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller An intriguing sci-fi novel, different from any of the other post-apocalyptic stuff I've read before. Understanding everything is helped by a background in Catholicism, but it's not necessary for following the story or enjoying the book. A classic ...

... back to for new reads in '08! Fiction: BEST: The Scarlet Letter An oldie but goodie that I really ate up. WORST: A Canticle for Liebowitz Everything that I hate about sci-fi in one book. Non Fiction: BEST: Constantine's Sword: The church and the jews, a history Wonderful prose ...

... by Frank Herbert Voyage to Venus by C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover Foreigner by C.J. C ...

... liberal mind and its compulsion to make everything and everyone equal. The levelling impulse. The great oversimplifiers. Canticle for Leibowitz

... recommend the two Mary Doria Russell books The Sparrow and Children of God; they're devastating but profound. A Canticle for Leibowitz is next on my list, and this discussion is giving me lots more ideas. Thanks much.

... lassics) Clifford Simak's City, Way Station Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity, Needle Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz Isaac Asimov's Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation Bernard Wolfe's Limbo

... something easier: No. 27 Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz TBR = 55

... and haunting ambience of the story seems more 'grown up' Another one that isn't YA, but which is really great is A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.. Of recent YA post apocalyptic novels, I'll second Green Angel by Alice Hoffman it is more poetic than most ...

... 451 by Ray Bradbury Brave new world by Aldous Huxley The ultimate hitchhiker's guide by Douglas Adams A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein Neuromancer by William Gibson Children of Dune by Fr ...

... Shadow The Black Swan Plus: Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff The Swords Trilogy by Michael Moorcock The Compass Rose by Ursu ...

... by Frank Herbert (227) The demolished man by Alfred Bester (95) Neuromancer by William Gibson (187) A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (123) Foundation by Isaac Asimov (146) The stars my destination by Alfred Bester (97) The dispossessed ...

A well-known post-apocalyptic novel that gets into high school reading lists is A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr..

... a post-apocalyptic America wasn't new to me like it might have been to other readers. I was also reminded a bit of Miller's A Canticle for Lebowitz and I had read The Pesthouse prior to the McCarthy. Anyone read the latest dystopia?..The Last American King, I think it's called (or ...

... Abides by George R Stewart City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Where late the sweet birds sang by Kate Wilhelm A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller, Jr The Book of Dave by Will Self Next month: Christian fiction!

I actually like lathe of heaven over left hand of darkness. It would be really interesting to contrast lathe with a canticle for leibowitz as examples of religion as an influence on science fiction. From left field, it might be worthwhile to evaluate Grass by Tepper, although I'd be ...

... by Philip K. Dick Music for Torching by A.M. Homes Lights out in the Reptile House by Jim Shepard A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. White Noise by Don Delillo

I'll second (or whatever) the recommendations of A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Space Merchants. Also, something by Philip K. Dick. The easiest ones to use for your purposes would be Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle. ...

... read whatever! Someone just TELL me what to read! :) Going back to post #54 - I'm with Morphy. I didn't care for A Canticle for Leibowitz at all. I read it, but it was difficult.

... the movie, so its all new to me) Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Kallocain by Karin Boye Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin It Can't Happen Here: A Novel by Sinclai ...

You're off to a good start with that curriculum. A Canticle for Leibowitz raises many questions about religious belief and the evolution of knowledge, but it's gripping reading anyway :).

... other one of his I know is Way Station, which is also quite good. I would greatly enjoy hearing other's thoughts on A Canticle for Leibowitz, one of my favorites from a zillion years ago, but I'd also enjoy reading somethig new. Flexible people are frustrating sometimes, huh?

... master in the field and these are two of his better books. 4. The Difference Engine by William Gibson 5. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Thinking about it but not actually checking, I think these are actually all award winning novels. You could do worse than to try to read your ...

53. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 338 pages 54. Anthem by Ayn Rand, 105 pages

I'm pretty sure the first SF I read was Podkayne of Mars. Other very early ones were Slan and A Canticle for Leibowitz. I was an altar boy and didn't have any trouble with the Latin.

For those who enjoyed A Canticle for Leibowitz, I highly recommend This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow. Simultaneously hilarious and gut-wrenching, it's one of the finest accounts of apocalypse I've ever read.

I'll second Canticle for Liebowitz, We (I'd read an older translation in a college course on Utopian/Dystopian literature in the early-'70s and I understand the newer translation is truer to the original and I want to read it), 1984 (I'd read my parents' pulp cover paperback when I was in my ...

... Green Mars, Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson. A great combination of social science and natural science. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.. Post-apocalyptic monasticism. What could be better? If I could include books more on the fantasy side of the ...

... TV-movie version of Lathe of Heaven. It had that kid from the film Witness, and a girl from The Cosby Show. It was o.k. A Canticle for Leibowitz, mentioned in the first post, is a good dystopian/ apocalyptic future novel. I also enjoyed The Big Time, though I'm not sure if it qualifies.

... fantasy. (After Tolkien and Jordan obviously) Alternatively, and I don't know if you read the genre, I just finished A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller. Easily the best post-apocolyptic book I have read to date.

Seems I am the lone survivor on this page. Much like a post-apocalyptic plot...hmmmm Canticle for Leibowitz: Damn. I think this has to be one of the best novels I have read in the last year. In fact it has to be one of the best books I have read ever. I'm a content over form reader, ...

Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Nashville's Grand Ole Opry The Year in Music

I'm starting again for 2008. I don't want to start a new thread all for myself, so I'll edit this one and reuse it. I enjoyed having the record last year of my year in books. My goal again this year - 100 substantial books. I am not recording ephemeral chick lit that I forget before I put the ...

... Book of the New Sun.* Gene Wolfe The Book of Knights. Yves Meynard Camp Concentration. Thomas Disch A Canticle for Leibowitz.* Walter M. Miller The Child Garden. Geoff Ryman Cloud Atlas. David Mitchell The Conquest of the Space Sea. Robert Moore Will ...

The Rachel scene near the end of A Canticle for Leibowitz is a powerful suggestion of hope in the direst of circumstances. The two protagonists hauling the sledge in The Left Hand of Darkness, working together despite the inner conflicts within each, is marvelous. The appearance of the ...

... people who have survived some sort of world-wide cataclysm. It reminds me a bit of the Fisher King legend. A bit of A Canticle for Liebowitz. And I think it prompts readers with a theological bent to think about man's essential relationship with God. Any takers?

The follow-up to A Canticle for Leibowitz is called Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman. I haven't read it myself so can't vouch for its quality.

I also highly enjoyed A Canticle for Liebowitz which i read many years ago as standing head and shoulders above most of the 'SF' books i could get my hands on at the time (though i disagree that it's "much better" than 1984; of course that is my personal opinion/taste, but really the two books ...

>62 Hmm, been many years since I read it, but A Canticle for Leibowitz?

I have to join the crowd on A Canticle for Liebowitz - and I read it so long ago I don't even own a copy, I checked it out of the library. But the story and the ideas inherent to the story have stayed with me. Another book that comes close to this category but perhaps not quite and is still a ...

... The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr. Hyperion by Dan Simmons Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel Ou ...

I loved A Canticle for Leibowitz - much better than 1984 or Brave New World. That might have to do with the circumstances they were read under. Having a broader frame of reference within a genre tends to add to the pleasure of reading a great work within it, in my experience. Nick Sagan ...

... of the Sower by Octavia Butler Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and I second Canticle for Leibowitz. The recent The Pesthouse by Jim Crace and The Road by Cormac McCarthy were pretty good also - although the things they have to say ...

... of this type of Science Fiction and to be honest I'm looking for titles to read myself. My personal favorites are 1984, A Canticle for Leibowitz and Brave New World

... Martian Chronicles, Ursula Leguin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. These last eight mentioned, I thought I still had, but maybe I haven't gotten to them in my cataloging effort.

... with him to figure out what's going on, rather than having everything spelled out for me. Also LeGuin, Guy Kay book" A Canticle for Leibowitz is a very old favorite. I really enjoyed Dan Simmons' Hyperion books. Amen to previous mentions of LHoD and Bester. For me, though, ...

... Christian Anderson story, this book is a fully realized world of it's own. It is very compelling and well-told. 14. A Canticle for Liebowitz by William M. Miller, Jr. A science fiction classic. This book was kind of depressing, watching people make the same mistakes over a long ...

#110 It was such a great class. Not only did we read PoA, but also The Hobbit, The Stars My Destination, A Canticle for Lebowitz, and other really great stories in the fantastic literature canon. Every college should have a genre specific class like that :D.

A Canticle for Leibowitz was very good, and I also enjoyed Fitzpatrick's War, although I felt it was slow and the ending was rather weak. I've been meaning to pick up Alas, Babylon, Lucifer's Hammer and I am Legend. Also, Dies the Fire was a good read, I need to check out the sequels. ...

... (1957) "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank (1959), the aftermath of a nuclear war in a rural Florida community. "A Canticle for Leibowitz" and later its sequel "Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman", both by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959). "Dark Universe" by Daniel F. Galouye ...

Some Catholic sci-fi: The winner for me is easily Canticle for Leibowitz. Stumbling upon that book was a true joy. It begins as science fiction and turns out to be so much more. Miller was a Catholic, at least for a while. It is one of the very few books I have read several times. An ...

... WN "Le Dieu venu du Centaure" "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" de Philip K. DICK "Un cantique pour Leibowitz" "A Canticle for Leibowitz" de Walter M. MILLER "Station des profondeurs" "Stations of the Tide" de Michael SAWNWICK "Riddley Walker" de Russell HOBAN "Forteres ...

... looking forward to rereading The Giver. I have a couple more that are next in my to be read stack that are not YA - A Canticle for Leibowitz and We Need to talk about Kevin.

A Canticle for Leibowitz and We Need to Talk about Kevin are the two books I'm currently reading. An Abundance of Katherines will be the next book.

1. Canticle for Leibowitz 2. The Third Policeman 3. A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole 4. Stardust by Neil Gaiman 5. Adventures in unhistory by Avram Davidson The first three books are supposed to be must-read classics. I hadn't even heard of them before I ...

I posted on another LT board about William Gaddis' book JR. Somehow the touchstone for the book title isn't coming up with this particular book. Although the book's cover has it spelled "JR" without