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	Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
		Leibowitz seems to have scrambled together a collection of miscellaneous junk and papers and shoved them in the "first tool box he happened to grab," sealed it and labelled it "Top Secret" and sent his wife to take it to this location.
		In the Canticle of the Brethren of the Order of Leibowitz, the phrase proclaims the fall of Lucifer from Heaven, where he was an angel until he rebelled against God (see Luke 10:18).
		The slashed "V" and "R" in the Canticle label the versicle (Versiculus) to be sung by one voice and its response (Responsum) by the massed choir (SS).
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/canticle.html (6954 words)

	Walter M. Miller
		A Canticle for Leibowitz is perhaps the greatest after-the-bomb novel, preceded by such works as Shadow on the Heart by Judith Merrill (1950) and On the Beach by Nevil Shute (1957), in which civilization is destroyed and the survivors of atomic war must contend with radioactive pollution.
		A Canticle for Leibowitz was irst published as three novellas in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1955, 1956, 1957) and then in book form after some rework.
		Leibowitz is considered a saint but ironically the reader sees that he was a Jewish physicist and his cherished texts are grocery lists, a lottery ticket and drawings of electrical control systems.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /wmiller.htm (1372 words)

	A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) for as low as $11.20 at The Gaming Outpost. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I just finished reading Miller's "Canticle for Leibowitz", and the first thing that comes to mind is that it is as relevent today as it was when it was first written in 1955 and '56.
		Miller's work done in A Canticle for Leibowitz is an insightful reflection on the nature of human work, The Catholic Church, and its direction for the edification of culture.
		A Canticle for Leibowitz is an excellent reflection on the nature of human work (as well as many other matters as they develop throughout the story).
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	Amazon.ca: A Canticle for Leibowitz: Books: Walter M. Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The monks also seek evidence concerning the existence of Leibowitz, their alleged founder (who, the reader soon realizes, is a Jewish scientist who appears to have been part of the nuclear industrial complex of the 1960s).
		Throughout "Canticle," you can see Miller wrestling with his spiritual beliefs and with his own demons, and in the final chapters, Miller includes an extended debate over whether suicide and euthanasia (and, tangentially, abortion) are ever viable options, even to avoid the worst forms of pain and certain death.
		Canticle for Lebowitz is a story that will appeal to all types of readers: science fiction readerers because of its speculative aspects as well as fantasy readers due to its projection of people into a strange (but all too possible) world.
	www.amazon.ca /Canticle-Leibowitz-Walter-M-Miller/dp/0060892994 (2305 words)

	A Canticle for Leibowitz at AllExperts
		A principal base for the order was an abbey Leibowitz founded in the American southwestern desert (near the military base where he had worked before the war).
		Leibowitz was eventually betrayed and martyred—he was killed by simultaneous hanging and burning.
		Similarly, the value and importance of the work of the Order of Leibowitz is independent of whether their theological principles are based on objective truth, and of whether a Jewish electrical engineer is really a saint in heaven.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/a/a_canticle_for_leibowitz.htm (3933 words)

	A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
		A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
		A Canticle for Leibowitz is a classic that has flown under the radar of mainstream science fiction for too long.
		Published in the shadow of the Cold War, A Canticle for Leibowitz offers a contemporary, provocative and bitter-sweet chronicle of the march of progress in a nightmarish, post-apocalyptic world populated by cannibalistic mutants and illiterate people living in a society that initially parallels Europe’s Dark Ages.
	americanfiction.suite101.com /article.cfm/a_canticle_for_leibowitz__miller (544 words)

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		Canticle is one of the best post-holocaust stories ever written.
		When they uncover some ancient relics of Saint Leibowitz (a twentieth century engineer who tried to stop the book burnings and other atrocities) they end up enshrining one of his grocery lists and venerate a common blue-print as rare and sacred.
		Later portions of the book detail the resurgence of science, fueled by the church's repositories of knowledge, but as becomes increasingly obvious as you go further in the book, there is still no change in mankind's basic human nature, and war enters the picture again (and again) - covering almost a two-thousand year span.
	www.hyperpat.com /Canticle_Leibowitz.html (528 words)

	A Canticle for Leibowitz Summary
		A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
		A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr., first published in 1959.
		A curious book, which defies narrow categories, [A Canticle for Leibowitz] contains elements of satire, science-fiction, fantasy, humor, sectarian religious propaganda, and an apocalyptic "utopian" vision.
	www.bookrags.com /A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz (340 words)

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		Leibowitz was a nuclear scientist, one of the developers of the weapons of destruction, who embraced Catholicism after his wife died in the nuclear holocaust.
		The novella takes place in the same abbey as "A Canticle For Leibowitz" did, but now that abbey is hosting a renowned scholar who is studying their ages' old artifacts for signs of the learning buried within them.
		LEIBOWITZ is a thirty-third century parallel of the mid-Renaissance struggles between the Italian city-states themselves and their joint struggles with the temporal authority of the Catholic Church.
	users.nac.net /bobsabella/Leibowitz.htm (2308 words)

	A Canticle for Leibowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
		Government sanctioned euthanasia has encroached upon the monastery of Leibowitz, both physically, in the form of a euthenasia station, and spiritually, as the abbot and a doctor spar over ethics and scripture.
		As a whole, the view of history, faith, and "truth" depicted in A Canticle for Leibowitz is quite dark and thought-provoking without being preachy.
	www.geocities.com /dindrane13/books/canticle.html (388 words)

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		Leibowitz was a nuclear scientist, one of the developers of the weapons of destruction, who embraced Catholicism after his wife died in the nuclear holocaust.
		The novella takes place in the same abbey as "A Canticle For Leibowitz" did, but now that abbey is hosting a renowned scholar who is studying their ages' old artifacts for signs of the learning buried within them.
		LEIBOWITZ is a thirty-third century parallel of the mid-Renaissance struggles between the Italian city-states themselves and their joint struggles with the temporal authority of the Catholic Church.
	www.users.nac.net /bobsabella/Leibowitz.htm (2308 words)

	Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz
		The subtle humor which suffuses Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is apparent from the first chapter when Brother Francis first encounters a Jewish traveler who he mistakes for a pilgrim while the monk is on a vigil in the desert.
		A Canticle for Leibowitz is refreshing in that it looks at the Catholic Church as a viable, eternal entity.
		Throughout this section the question of what Francis actually encountered in the desert and whether or not Leibowitz would be canonized a saint are used to demonstrate the strength of Francis's faith in the face of a variety of obstacles.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/canticle.html (517 words)

	Classic Sci-Fi Reviews: A Canticle for Leibowitz
		Throughout the book burnings and witch hunts, a small religious order founded by I.E. Leibowitz -- one of the scientists whose work enabled the war and who later found religion, only to die for his beliefs -- labored in secret to preserve what knowledge it could from the past.
		The monks serve as a vehicle for Miller to both chronicle the state of humanity and to comment on it, and ultimately they may play a part in the physical salvation of the human race as well.
		And it is this existence that ultimately serves as the "canticle" for Leibowitz, and for all humanity.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue49/classic.html (492 words)

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		Amidst this chaos, a nuclear engineer named Leibowitz, seeking to avoid the mobs and repent his deeds, took refuge with the Holy Church.
		As a result of his proposals and urgings, New Rome granted permission to found a new religious order whose mission was to preserve history until such time as mankind was again ready to receive it.
		Thus was born the Albertian Order of Leibowitz, gatherers and preservers of knowledge against the gathering darkness.
	www.dr-iguana.com /Books/rev_canticleforleibowitz.htm (284 words)

	BookBlog: A Canticle for Leibowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Read A Canticle for Leibowitz, after having it on the shelf for maybe a decade.
		In the dark ages, the actions of the church are absurd.
		Leibowitz was a low-level engineer who tried to preserve technical knowledge when angry mobs try to destroy the people and knowledge that led to civilization's destruction.
	alevin.com /weblog/archives/001032.html (426 words)

	CSP: St. Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
		In case you haven't read the original book, A Canticle for Leibowitz was written in the mid 1950s and is a tale of post-apocalyptic earth.
		Leibowitz and his followers stashed books and scientific papers in safehouses (and, when things became more deadly, memorized entire volumes for later reproduction), tucked away for a time when learning was once again accepted.
		Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman is not a sequal in the truest sense -- the characters are not the same, and the story takes place about the same time (or shortly after) the middle story in the original.
	www.clarkschpiell.com /home/stleibowitz.shtml (643 words)

	Reviews of Fantasy and Science Fiction Books -- Writers Write -- The IWJ
		Bisson persevered and the result is Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, a tale set in the 34th century of the world described in A Canticle for Leibowitz.
		An unhappy resident of the Leibowitz Abbey, St. George is suffering a crisis in faith struggling between the dictates of his Nomad upbringing and his religious vows and his increasingly secular visions of the wild horsewoman, a myth from his childhood.
		Leibowitz and the Wild Horsewoman is a longer and more complex tale than A Canticle for Leibowitz, more of a close-up view of one time period out of the many covered in the original novel.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/feb98/fansf.htm (934 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: A Canticle for Leibowitz / Walter M. Miller, Jr.
		And yet, the monks — who revere a martyred scientist named Leibowitz — have made it their business to recover and preserve as much of the ancient knowledge as possible.
		There is little fear in seeing the mistakes of yesteryear repeated, as the texts — referred to as "the Memorabilia" — never leave their cellars and few people in the world outside the abbey and its mother church are even literate.
		A Canticle for Leibowitz is not a religious story in that sense at all.
	www.sfreviews.net /cfl.html (1209 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Canticle for Leibowitz: Books: Walter M., Jr. Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Canticle for Leibowitz won a Hugo, and his only other novel, Leibowitz and the Wild Horsewoman was published posthumously.
		Leibowitz, we discover, was looking for a way to help society maintain order in the destruction--being an historian, even though he was Jewish, he remembered the relative stability of society in the Dark Ages being guided and enhanced in the aftermath of fall of Rome by the Church in general, and monastic orders in particular.
		When CANTICLE was published, America was coming to the end of the Eisenhower presidency, the eight years that "showed America could do without a President".
	www.amazon.co.uk /Canticle-Leibowitz-Walter-Jr-Miller/dp/0060913215 (3105 words)

	A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller, Jr - an infinity plus review
		Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) is perhaps the most highly regarded of this particular sub-genre; now reissued very handsomely as part of the hardback spin-off of the Gollancz 'SF Masterworks' series.
		Leibowitz has been canonised by the church, and a local warlord has declared himself 'Sovereign of Texarkana, Emperor of Laredo, Defender of the Faith'.
		Nor is it out-of-place to read A Canticle for Leibowitz in political terms; political agenda surface throughout.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/canticle.htm (1621 words)

	Amazon.com: A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book): Books: Walter M. Miller Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The monks also seek evidence concerning the existence of Leibowitz, their alleged founder (who, the reader soon realizes, is a Jewish scientist who appears to have been part of the nuclear industrial complex of the 1960s).
		Throughout "Canticle," you can see Miller wrestling with his spiritual beliefs and with his own demons, and in the final chapters, Miller includes an extended debate over whether suicide and euthanasia (and, tangentially, abortion) are ever viable options, even to avoid the worst forms of pain and certain death.
		The church has made Leibowitz a saint, and here Miller appears to be commenting on the reverence of organized religion toward matters of doubtful authenticity and importance.
	www.amazon.com /Canticle-Leibowitz-Bantam-Spectra-Book/dp/0553379267 (2321 words)

	A Canticle for Leibowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This time around it was Miller's theory of history (or at least the theory of history used to construct the book), which bears some pondering.
		Canticle is the story of humanity and the Catholic Church after a near-Armageddon nuclear war wipes out most of society (the book was first published in 1959).
		Leibowitz over several millenia as society struggles back up from barbarism to something just a bit beyond our own technology (slow interstellar travel).
	www.larkfarm.com /books/canticle.htm (259 words)

	SFBook.com Science Fiction - A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
		Walter M. Miller, in A Canticle for Leibowitz, the first of two books set in the Leibowitzian universe (the other being Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, a sequel to Canticle which he wrote just before his death), contributes his ideas into this arena.
		This connection is entirely intended by Miller as Canticle comments on the role of the Church in the history of Western civilization.
		The claims of religion are taken seriously in Canticle, while in most other science fiction the notion of a religious faith finds itself in, it is either seen as a tool for the strong used to bend the will of the weak, or an individual comfort, but never an absolute possessor of truth.
	sfbook.com /modules.php?bookid=677 (1850 words)

	The Librarium: October 2006: A Canticle for Leibowitz. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Canticle for Leibowitz, the 1959 award-winning sci-fi book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., is the first selection for The Librarium book blog.
		On the other hand, it is amazing how the "church" in Canticle seems to abandon some of the traditional elements of the faith and make a saint out of someone who was probably a non-observant Jew.
		I believe it was their use at the end of the first and second parts of Canticle that led me to think this.
	thelibrarium.blogspot.com /2006/10/october-2006-canticle-for-leibowitz.html (2737 words)

	OMGN: Nexus » Book Review: A Canticle for Leibowitz
		A Canticle for Leibowitz is not a novel.
		It is the story of how the brothers seek to have Leibowitz officially recognized as a saint.
		A Canticle For Leibowitz is a most intriguing and well executed book and should be required reading in classrooms today.
	www.omgn.com /nexus/wp-trackback.php?p=201 (476 words)

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