• A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a...
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    A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), the only novel published in his lifetime, won the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Prior to its publication, he was a...
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  • including The Benedicite) The Fourth Canticle - Psalm 148–150 Hymns to Mary A Canticle for Leibowitz Canticle, the counterpoint melody to "Scarborough...
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    writing, a decade later, the book A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is considered a masterpiece of science fiction. The book tells the story of a group of...
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  • Isaac Edward Leibowitz, a fictional character in the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz Maya, Francis, Randall, and Barry Leibowitz-Jenkins, a fictional family...
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  • writer Walter M. Miller Jr. It is a follow-up to Miller's 1959 book A Canticle for Leibowitz. Miller wrote the majority of the novel before his death in 1996;...
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  • (mythology), a figure from Greek mythology Thon (name), a surname and given name Thon (river), northern France Thon (A Canticle for Leibowitz), an academic...
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    /nʊŋk dɪˈmɪtɪs/), also known as the Song of Simeon or the Canticle of Simeon, is a canticle taken from the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke, verses...
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  • It predates many similar novels including Alas, Babylon (1959), A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960), and The Last Ship (1988). It is itself predated, however...
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  • Texas, a community college "Texarkana" (song), by R.E.M., featuring Mike Mills on lead vocals Texarkana, a fictional city in A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter...
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  • Riddley Walker (category John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction Novel–winning works)
    novel draws on "such well-known dystopias as A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, and A Canticle for Leibowitz", and "what is unique in Hoban's haunting...
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  • Some Desperate Glory (novel) (category Hugo Award for Best Novel–winning works)
    2024 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Decades ago, Earth was destroyed and fourteen billion humans died during the Majo War. The majo are a group of several...
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  • allegory suggestive of the premise of the science-fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz: a world where all sciences have been dismantled quickly and almost...
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  • Neuromancer (category Hugo Award for Best Novel–winning works)
    It turns out to be just a throwaway line, but for a moment it worked like the best SF, where a casual reference can imply a lot." The novel's street...
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  • of a nuclear holocaust wiping out civilization. The presence of a Christian religious order is also reminiscent of the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. Hiero's...
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  • imperialism. A Memory Called Empire won the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2020 Compton Crook Award, and was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best...
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    and A Canticle for Leibowitz.[citation needed] The book is unusual among London's writings (and in the literature of the time in general) in being a first-person...
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  • Travel by Robert A. Heinlein (1958) Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick (1959) Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (1959) A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller...
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  • John Wyndham and Lucas Parkes) A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) by Walter M. Miller Jr. The War Against the Rull (1959) by A. E. van Vogt The Great Explosion...
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  • All pages with titles beginning with Canticle All pages with titles containing canticle A Canticle for Leibowitz, 1960 novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr....
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  • All Time. In 2014, The Sword in the Stone was awarded a retrospective Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1939. The premise is that Arthur's youth, not dealt...
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    were re-issued first. For titles that were previously issued in the original series, generally the cover artwork is tinted in a different colour from...
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  • Ringworld (category Hugo Award for Best Novel–winning works)
    in area to approximately three million Earths), a breathable atmosphere, and a temperature optimal for humans. Night is provided by an inner ring of shadow...
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  • "A Canticle for Leibowitz" and "By His Bootstraps" were not included in the collection.) "Who Goes There?" (1938), John W. Campbell, Jr. "A Canticle for...
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  • a work of science fiction the book was overly familiar and compared it unfavorably to A Canticle for Leibowitz while also stating that Faber "tells a...
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    Blish, A Case of Conscience (1958) Jack Vance, The Languages of Pao (1958) Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) Arthur C. Clarke, A Fall...
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  • Clarke's Childhood's End (1953), Blish's A Case of Conscience (1958), and Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959). A related concurrent (and perhaps ironic)...
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  • by Bantam Books, as a Bantam Spectra hardcover edition. In 1996, it won both the Hugo and Locus Awards, and was shortlisted for the Nebula and other...
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    against the supernatural" (The Shining) and "man against God" (A Canticle for Leibowitz). "Man against man" conflict involves stories where characters...
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  • Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, an indirect sequel to the 1985 novel Ender's Game. The book...
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