عنوان

A Canticle for Leibowitz /

(Number (ISBN

0060892994

(Number (ISBN

0553379267

(Number (ISBN

1568655819

(Number (ISBN

9780060892999

(Number (ISBN

9780553379266

(Number (ISBN

9781568655819

Number

b703501

Title Proper

A Canticle for Leibowitz /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Walter M. Miller, Jr. ; with a new introduction by Mary Doria Russell.

Edition Statement

First Eos paperback edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Eos,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1959

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 334 pages ;

Dimensions

21 cm

Text of Note

"This book was originally published in 1959 by Lippincott and in trade paperback editions in 1961 and 1997 by Bantam, and in 1986 by Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso.

Text of Note

pt. 1. Fiat homo -- pt. 2. Fiat lux -- pt. 3. Fia voluntas tua.

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Text of Note

A Canticle for Leibowitz opens 600 years after 20th century civilization has been destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge." As a result of the war, there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification," anyone of learning, and eventually anyone who could even read, was likely to be killed by rampaging mobs, who proudly took on the name of "Simpletons". Illiteracy became almost universal, and books were destroyed en masse. Isaac Edward Leibowitz had been a Jewish electrical engineer working for the United States military. Surviving the war, he converted to Roman Catholicism and founded a monastic order, the "Albertian Order of Leibowitz", dedicated to preserving knowledge by hiding books, smuggling them to safety (booklegging), memorizing, and copying them. Centuries after his death, the abbey is still preserving the "Memorabilia", the collected writings that have survived the Flame Deluge and the Simplification, in the hope that they will help future generations reclaim forgotten science.

Freedom of information, Fiction.

Knowledge management, Fiction.

Monks-- Southwest, New, Fiction.

Nuclear warfare, Fiction.

FICTION-- Science Fiction-- General.

Freedom of information.

Knowledge management.

Monks.

Nuclear warfare.

New Southwest.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Miller, Walter M.,Jr.,1923-1996

Russell, Mary Doria,1950-

Date of Transaction

20201207185908.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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