Winner from the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered probably one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of contemporary speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is usually a true landmark of twentieth-century literature-a chilling and still-provocative take a look at a postapocalyptic future.

In a nightmarish, ruined world, slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infantile rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks focused on the analysis and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From right here the story spans hundreds of years of ignorance, assault, and barbarism, looking at through a sharpened, satirical eyes the relentless development of a human race damned by its natural humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, tragic, eternally refreshing, imaginative, and entirely exceptional, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its capability to enthrall and impress. It is now, as it always offers been, a masterpiece.