This is somehow a near perfect science fiction novel from 1960 that won a ton of awards, and then essentially the author never published much else again. The time is about 1000 years in the future and we’re in some of kind of wasteland that we will come to understand in the American Southwest as a Catholic (maybe?) monk novitiate finds a blueprint associated with one Leibowitz, the head of a monastic sect within Catholicism ala Domincans or Jesuits. This sect is tasked with holding […]
The pilgrim’s bread and cheese went flying.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller