[.cnI redruM]

Confession: I LOVED that novel. Easily up there with Asimov and Bradbury in terms of well-crafted Science Fiction.

[omega4412]

S Leibowitz, ora pro nobis

[the invisib1e hand]

“When one age dies, its symbols lose their referents and become incomprehensible,”

I was thinking all our rock and roll idols will be kicking off [relatively] soon...

[Joe 6-pack]

Read it years ago...back when the the anti-nuke crowd was heralding it as a sign of things to come. I found it intriguing; far better than "The Day After," agitprop of the day.

[50sDad]

There was an artist, I sadly forget his name, who drew all manner of strange images several hundred years ago, famous for tryptychs and such. To the people of his time, who understood symbolic language, his works were outragously Christian. (A horse was St. Peter, a heart the Heart of Christ, etc.) A scant seventy years later, his works were being burned as heretical devil-worship because they were so strange. His audience had moved on, and forgotten the common shared language that made his early works understandable.

[OpusatFR]

The absolute best. I have my well-worn copy and hide it from the kids.

As an aside, one of my super liberal co-workers borrowed it and returned it with the remark that I must be sexually repressed because I enjoy a book without sex so much.

Totally missed the theme of the story. I suppose he is one of the Simpletons that will arise after the Flame Deluge.

[SlowBoat407]

I discovered the book from a reference to it in James Michener's "Space". Loved it.

[RedStateRocker]

End-times stories have become quite popular in recent years. In a recent New York Magazine piece, entitled “The End of the World as They Know It,” Kurt Anderson observes that from “Christian millenarians and jihadists to Ivy League professors and baby-boomers, apocalypse is hot.”

People were freaking out and expecting the Second Coming since about 70 AD. There was a good scene in 'name of the rose' where the whole monastery seemed convinced that Antichrist was nigh.

[DoctorMichael]

Great book! A classic!

.......hate and fear grow among the masses, especially toward “men of learning” whom the people now blame for the destruction.......

......Made me think of the IDiac/Creationoids.

[LonePalm]

I don't even have to look it up.

"pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels – bring home for Emma"

Now if I could just remember my own shopping list.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Rocko]

It's been quite some time since I've read it. Did you read the sequel?

[squarebarb]

How interesting, I just finished re-reading it a few days ago, and it was better than I remembered it.

St. Liebowitz ora pro nobis indeed.

In fact I have been re-reading a stack of post-apocalypse novels recently, including The Road (MacCarthy).

At any rate it is very good. However, most of the post-apocalypse novels are based on nuclear holocausts, with the exception of Day Of The Triffids --- and oh yes, the grandaddy of them all, War Of The Worlds.

So far no one has written a post-apocalypse novel based on the ruin radical Islan would make of the world, or the equally rancid ruin of America effected by liberal bureaucracies.

Any thoughts?

[don-o]

Can you find our copy? I need a good read.

[discostu]

It's that book I gave you. Haven't actually read the article yet.

[FormerACLUmember]

My favorite sci-fi novel for 47 years.

[Moose4]

I had to read that book during a three-week May session in college, 1986. We had to read six novels in three weeks, and "Canticle" was one of them. And it was my favorite. I need to go pick up a copy and read it again.

}:-)4

[Rockingham]

Me too. It is a good story in terms of sci fi, but it revolves around moral issues and dilemmas that transcend the genre.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

The Albertian Order of Saint Liebowitz . . . excellent, most excellent.

[Cicero]

It's a wonderful book. I'm a science fiction fan, but this is one of those rare books I would recommend to anyone, including those who don't normally like SF.

[ARridgerunner]

I've read it half a dozen times. And I still don't get the Wandering Jew, except his age. Exactly who is/was the Wandering Jew?

(I liked the poet, too.)

[Dumb_Ox]

"Bless me father, for I have sinned. I ate a lizard."