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Miller Jr.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">A Canticle for Leibowitz <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&rft.author=%5B%5BWalter+M.+Miller+Jr.%5D%5D&rft.place=United+States&rft.pages=320&rft_id=info:oclcnum/1451434"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz_cover_1st_ed.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A man in monk's garb surrounded by stone ruins"><img alt="A man in monk's garb surrounded by stone ruins" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d2/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz_cover_1st_ed.jpg/220px-A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz_cover_1st_ed.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz_cover_1st_ed.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="263" data-file-height="377" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First edition dust jacket<br />Illustration by George Sottung</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Walter_M._Miller_Jr." title="Walter M. Miller Jr.">Walter M. Miller Jr.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cover artist</th><td class="infobox-data">George Sottung</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data">Science fiction</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Published</th><td class="infobox-data">October 1959 (<a href="/wiki/J._B._Lippincott_%26_Co." title="J. B. Lippincott & Co.">J. B. Lippincott & Co.</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (hardback and paperback)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">320</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1451434">1451434</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Saint_Leibowitz_and_the_Wild_Horse_Woman" title="Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman">Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>A Canticle for Leibowitz</b></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction" title="Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction">post-apocalyptic</a> <a href="/wiki/Social_science_fiction" title="Social science fiction">social science fiction</a> novel by American writer <a href="/wiki/Walter_M._Miller_Jr." title="Walter M. Miller Jr.">Walter M. Miller Jr.</a>, first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic <a href="/wiki/Monastery" title="Monastery">monastery</a> in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear war">nuclear war</a>, the book spans thousands of years as <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a> rebuilds itself. The <a href="/wiki/Christian_monasticism" title="Christian monasticism">monks</a> of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it. </p><p>The novel is a <a href="/wiki/Fix-up" title="Fix-up">fix-up</a> of three short stories Miller published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction" title="The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</a></i> that were inspired by the author's participation in the bombing of the monastery at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino" title="Battle of Monte Cassino">Battle of Monte Cassino</a> during World War II. The book is considered one of the classics of science fiction and has never been out of print. It won the 1961 <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> for best science fiction novel, and its themes of religion, <a href="/wiki/Cyclic_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyclic history">recurrence</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Religious_denomination" title="Religious denomination">church</a> versus <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">state</a> have generated a significant body of scholarly research. A sequel, <i><a href="/wiki/Saint_Leibowitz_and_the_Wild_Horse_Woman" title="Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman">Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman</a></i>, was published posthumously in 1997. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication_history">Publication history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Publication history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Development">Development</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By 1955, <a href="/wiki/Walter_M._Miller_Jr." title="Walter M. Miller Jr.">Walter M. Miller Jr.</a> had published over 30 science fiction <a href="/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">short stories</a> in such magazines as <i><a href="/wiki/Astounding_Science_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Astounding Science Fiction">Astounding Science Fiction</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Stories" title="Amazing Stories">Amazing Stories</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_Adventures" title="Fantastic Adventures">Fantastic Adventures</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Significant themes of his stories included loss of scientific knowledge or "socio-technological regression and its presumed antithesis, continued technological advance", its preservation through oral transmission, the guardianship of archives by priests, and "that side of [human] behavior which can only be termed religious".<sup id="cite_ref-seed-texts_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seed-texts-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dns-tlc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These thematic elements, combined with the growing subgenre of the "post-disaster" story and Miller's own experiences during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, set the stage for the short story that would become the opening section of <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During World War II, Miller served as a radioman and tail gunner in a <a href="/wiki/Bomber" title="Bomber">bomber</a> crew that participated in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino#Destruction_of_the_abbey" title="Battle of Monte Cassino">destruction of the 6th-century Christian monastery</a> at <a href="/wiki/Monte_Cassino" title="Monte Cassino">Monte Cassino</a>, Italy, founded by <a href="/wiki/Benedict_of_Nursia" title="Benedict of Nursia">St. Benedict</a> and recognized as the oldest surviving Christian church in the Western world. This experience impressed him enough to write, a decade later, the short story "A Canticle for Leibowitz", about an order of monks whose abbey springs from the destroyed world around it.<sup id="cite_ref-garvey_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-garvey-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-roberson_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roberson-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The story, which would evolve into "Fiat Homo", the first of three parts of the fix-up novel, was published in the April 1955 edition of <i>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction</i> (<i>F&SF</i>). </p><p>Although not originally intended as a serialization, the saga continued in "And the Light Is Risen", which was published in August 1956 (also in <i>F&SF</i>). That work would later grow into "Fiat Lux", the second part of the novel. It was while writing the third story, "The Last Canticle", for magazine publication in February of the following year<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb-series_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-series-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that Miller realized he was really completing a novel: "Only after I had written the first two and was working on the third did it dawn on me that this isn't three novelettes, it's a novel. And I converted it".<sup id="cite_ref-roberson_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roberson-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The publication of the three "Canticle" stories,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with Miller's "The Lineman", in <i>F&SF</i>, marked a significant evolution in the writer's craft. Under the editorship of <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Boucher" title="Anthony Boucher">Anthony Boucher</a>, <i>F&SF</i> possessed a reputation for publishing works with "careful writing and characterization". <a href="/wiki/Walker_Percy" title="Walker Percy">Walker Percy</a> considered the magazine "high-class sci-fi pulp".<sup id="cite_ref-walker-signposts_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-walker-signposts-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The appearance of these stories in the magazine is indicative of the direction Miller's writing had taken toward <span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'human' stories, less crowded with incident, more concerned with values".<sup id="cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dns-tlc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i> was the only novel Miller published during his lifetime.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the <a href="/wiki/Fix-up" title="Fix-up">fix-up</a>, Miller did not just collate the three short stories. He changed the title and the names of some characters, added new characters, changed the nature and prominence of existing characters, and added <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin" title="Ecclesiastical Latin">Latin</a> passages. These revisions affected the religious and recurrence themes of the story.<sup id="cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dns-tlc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Latin phrases in the novel relate to Roman Catholic Church practices, rituals and official communications. Susan Olsen writes that Miller did not include the Latin phrases just to "add dignity" to the work, but to emphasize its religious themes, making it consonant with the tradition of Judeo-Christian writings.<sup id="cite_ref-olsen-revision_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-olsen-revision-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Changing the name of the abbot of the first part from "Father Juan" to "Abbot Arkos" strengthened the cyclical/recurrence motif, since the name of the first abbot encountered, "Arkos", begins with the first letter of the <a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin alphabet</a> and the name of the last abbot, "Zerchi", begins with the last letter.<sup id="cite_ref-olsen-revision_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-olsen-revision-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Miller also expanded certain scenes, increasing their importance: for instance, the initial encounter between Brother Francis and Abbot Arkos in "Fiat Homo" grew from two pages in the short story to eight pages in the novel. Abbot Arkos was shown to possess doubts and uncertainty, unlike the <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogmatism</a> of Father Juan.<sup id="cite_ref-olsen-revision_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-olsen-revision-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Miller also used the adaptation process to add a layer of complexity to the story. Walker Percy recognized this dimension of the novel, which he compared to a "cipher, a coded message, a book in a strange language".<sup id="cite_ref-percy-rediscoveries_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-percy-rediscoveries-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David Seed deemed the novel "charged with half-concealed meaning", an intricacy that seems to have been added as Miller was revising the stories for publication as a novel. Decoding messages such as this is an important activity in Miller's works, both in <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i> and in his short stories.<sup id="cite_ref-seed-texts_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seed-texts-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, in the original version of "Fiat Homo", Miller limits his "wordplay" to an explicit symbolism involving the letter "V" and Brother Francis' "Voice/Vocation" during Francis' encounter with the wandering pilgrim. In the novel, however, "Miller reserves such symbolistic cross-references to the more intellectual analysts and builds a comedy of incomprehension around Francis".<sup id="cite_ref-seed-texts_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seed-texts-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Miller's experience in writing for science fiction magazines contributed to his writing of <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i>. His background was with the medium lengths of the short story, novelette, and short novel, where he combined character, action, and import. This full-length novel has a tripartite structure: each section is "short novel size, with counterpoint, motifs, and allusions making up for the lack of more ordinary means of continuity".<sup id="cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dns-tlc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Publication">Publication</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Publication"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i> was published by <a href="/wiki/J._B._Lippincott_%26_Co." title="J. B. Lippincott & Co.">J. B. Lippincott & Co.</a> as a hardcover in 1960 with a 1959 copyright,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and two reprints appeared within the first year.<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More than 40 new editions and reprints have appeared for the book, which has never been <a href="/wiki/Out_of_print" title="Out of print">out of print</a>. It often appears on "best of" lists, and has been recognized three times with <a href="/wiki/Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)">Locus</a> Poll Awards for best all-time science fiction novel.<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-roberson_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roberson-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Time_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Plot summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After 20th-century civilization was destroyed by a global <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear war">nuclear war</a>, known as the "Flame Deluge", 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 <a href="/wiki/Book_burning" title="Book burning">books were destroyed</a> en masse. </p><p>Isaac Edward Leibowitz, a Jewish <a href="/wiki/Electrical_engineer" class="mw-redirect" title="Electrical engineer">electrical engineer</a> working for the United States military, survived the war and sought refuge from the mobs of the "Simplification" in the sanctuary of a <a href="/wiki/Cistercians" title="Cistercians">Cistercian</a> monastery, all the while surreptitiously searching for his wife, from whom he had become separated in the war. Eventually concluding that his wife was dead, he joined the monastery, took holy orders (becoming a priest), and dedicated his life to preserving knowledge by hiding books, smuggling them to safety (known as "booklegging"), memorizing, and copying them. He approached the Church for permission to found a new monastic order dedicated to this purpose. With permission granted, he founded his new order in the desert of the American Southwest, where it became known as the "Albertian <a href="/wiki/Order_(religious)" class="mw-redirect" title="Order (religious)">Order</a> of Leibowitz". The Order's <a href="/wiki/Abbey" title="Abbey">abbey</a> is located in a remote desert in <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>, possibly near the military base where Leibowitz worked before the war, on an old road that may have been "a portion of the shortest route from the <a href="/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake" title="Great Salt Lake">Great Salt Lake</a> to Old <a href="/wiki/El_Paso,_Texas" title="El Paso, Texas">El Paso</a>". Leibowitz was eventually betrayed and <a href="/wiki/Martyr" title="Martyr">martyred</a>. Later <a href="/wiki/Beatification" title="Beatification">beatified</a> by the Roman Catholic Church, he became a candidate for <a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">sainthood</a>. </p><p>Six hundred years after his death, the abbey still preserves the "Memorabilia", the collected writings and artifacts of 20th-century civilization that survived the Flame Deluge and the Simplification, in the hope that they will help future generations reclaim forgotten science. </p><p>The story is structured in three parts: "<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Fiat Homo</i></span>", "<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Fiat Lux</i></span>", and "<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Fiat Voluntas Tua</i></span>". The parts are separated by periods of six centuries each. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiat_Homo_("Let_There_Be_Man")"><span id="Fiat_Homo_.28.22Let_There_Be_Man.22.29"></span><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Fiat Homo</i></span> ("Let There Be Man")</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Fiat Homo ("Let There Be Man")"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 26th century, a 17-year-old <a href="/wiki/Catholic_novitiate" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic novitiate">novice</a> named Brother Francis Gerard of <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a> is on a vigil in a New Mexico desert. While searching for a rock to complete a shelter from the desert wolves, Brother Francis encounters a vagrant <a href="/wiki/Wandering_Jew" title="Wandering Jew">Wanderer</a>, apparently looking for the abbey, who inscribes <a href="/wiki/Hebrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew">Hebrew</a> on a rock that appears to be the perfect fit for the shelter. When Brother Francis picks up the rock, he discovers the entrance to an ancient <a href="/wiki/Fallout_shelter" title="Fallout shelter">fallout shelter</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> containing "relics", such as handwritten notes on crumbling memo pads bearing cryptic texts resembling a 20th-century shopping list.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He soon realizes that these notes appear to have been written by Leibowitz, his order's founder. The discovery of the ancient documents causes an uproar at the monastery, as the other monks speculate that the relics once belonged to Leibowitz. Brother Francis's account of the Wanderer, who ultimately never turned up at the abbey, is also greatly embellished by the other monks amid rumours that he was an apparition of Leibowitz himself; Francis strenuously denies the embellishments, but equally persistently refuses to deny that the encounter occurred, despite the lack of other witnesses. <a href="/wiki/Abbot" title="Abbot">Abbot</a> Arkos, the head of the monastery, worries that the discovery of so many potentially holy relics in such a short period may cause delays in Leibowitz's <a href="/wiki/Canonization" title="Canonization">canonization</a> process. Francis is banished back to the desert to complete his vigil and defuse the sensationalism. </p><p>Many years later, the abbey is visited by <a href="/wiki/Monsignor" title="Monsignor">Monsignors</a> Aguerra (<a href="/wiki/God%27s_advocate" class="mw-redirect" title="God's advocate">God's Advocate</a>) and Flaught (the <a href="/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate" title="Devil's advocate">Devil's Advocate</a>), the Church's investigators in the case for Leibowitz's sainthood. Leibowitz is eventually canonized as Saint Leibowitz – based partly on the evidence Francis discovered in the shelter – and Brother Francis is sent to New Rome to represent the Order at the canonization <a href="/wiki/Mass_(liturgy)" title="Mass (liturgy)">Mass</a>. He brings with him the documents found in the shelter, and an <a href="/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript" title="Illuminated manuscript">illumination</a> of one of the documents on which he has spent years working, as a gift to the Pope. </p><p>En route, he is robbed by "The Pope's Children" – an ironic name for outcast genetic mutants who are the descendants of fallout victims – and his illumination is taken, though he negotiates with the robbers to keep the original <a href="/wiki/Blueprint" title="Blueprint">blueprint</a> on which the illuminated copy was based. The robbers believe the gold-inlaid copy is the original and the blueprint the worthless copy. Francis completes the journey to New Rome and is granted an audience with the Pope.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Francis presents the Pope with the remaining blueprint, and the Pope comforts Francis with the notion that the fifteen years he spent creating the illumination were not rendered a waste by the theft, but rather were essential in protecting the original relic. The Pope also aids Francis by giving him gold with which to ransom back the illumination; however, Francis is killed during his return trip by the Pope's Children, receiving an arrow between the eyes, just after he spots the approach of the Wanderer in the distance. The Wanderer discovers and buries Francis's body. The narrative then focuses on the <a href="/wiki/Turkey_vulture" title="Turkey vulture">buzzards</a> who were denied their meal by the burial; they fly over the Great Plains and find much food near the <a href="/wiki/Red_River_of_the_South" title="Red River of the South">Red River</a> until a city-state, based in <a href="/wiki/Texarkana" class="mw-redirect" title="Texarkana">Texarkana</a>, rises. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiat_Lux_("Let_There_Be_Light")"><span id="Fiat_Lux_.28.22Let_There_Be_Light.22.29"></span><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Fiat Lux</i></span> ("Let There Be Light")</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Fiat Lux ("Let There Be Light")"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fiat_Lux_Canticle_map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Map as described in the caption." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Fiat_Lux_Canticle_map.png/220px-Fiat_Lux_Canticle_map.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Fiat_Lux_Canticle_map.png/330px-Fiat_Lux_Canticle_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Fiat_Lux_Canticle_map.png/440px-Fiat_Lux_Canticle_map.png 2x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="607" /></a><figcaption>North America in 3174, showing Texark territory in yellow. The Texark expansion as described in this story and in <i>Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman</i> is marked in orange.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 3174, the Albertian Order of Saint Leibowitz is still preserving the half-understood knowledge from before the Flame Deluge and the subsequent Age of Simplification. The new <a href="/wiki/Societal_collapse" title="Societal collapse">Dark Age</a> is ending, however, and a new <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> is beginning. Thon Taddeo Pfardentrott, a highly regarded secular scholar, is sent by his cousin Hannegan, Mayor of <a href="/wiki/Texarkana" class="mw-redirect" title="Texarkana">Texarkana</a>, to the abbey. Thon Taddeo, frequently compared to <a href="/wiki/Galileo" class="mw-redirect" title="Galileo">Galileo</a>, is interested in the Order's preserved collection of Memorabilia. </p><p>At the abbey, Brother Kornhoer, a talented engineer, has just finished work on a "generator of electrical essences", a treadmill-powered <a href="/wiki/Electrical_generator" class="mw-redirect" title="Electrical generator">electrical generator</a> that powers an <a href="/wiki/Arc_lamp" title="Arc lamp">arc lamp</a>. He gives credit for the generator to work done by Thon Taddeo. Arriving at the monastery, Thon Taddeo immediately recognizes the significance of Brother Kornhoer's pioneering work. By studying the Memorabilia, Thon Taddeo makes several major "discoveries", and asks the abbot to allow the Memorabilia to be removed to Texarkana. The Abbot Dom Paulo refuses, offering to allow Thon Taddeo to continue his research at the abbey instead. Before departing, the Thon comments that it could take decades to finish analyzing the Memorabilia. </p><p>The Wanderer, now called Benjamin, has settled down as a hermit within sight of the abbey, and has struck up a relationship with the abbot. Before Thon Taddeo departs, Benjamin visits the abbey to meet the Thon, to see if he is the long-awaited Messiah. </p><p>Meanwhile, Hannegan makes an alliance with the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Laredo,_Texas" title="Laredo, Texas">Laredo</a> and the neighboring, relatively civilized <a href="/wiki/City_state" class="mw-redirect" title="City state">city-states</a> against the threat of attack from nomadic warriors living on the plains. Hannegan, however, is secretly manipulating the regional politics to effectively neutralize all of his enemies, leaving him in control of the entire region. Monsignor Apollo, the papal <a href="/wiki/Nuncio" title="Nuncio">nuncio</a> to Hannegan's court, sends word to New Rome that Hannegan intends to attack the Empire of <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Denver</a> next, and that he intends to use the abbey as a base of operations from which to conduct the campaign. For his actions, Apollo is executed, and Hannegan initiates a church schism, declaring loyalty to the Pope to be punishable by death. The Church <a href="/wiki/Excommunication" title="Excommunication">excommunicates</a> Hannegan. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiat_Voluntas_Tua_("Thy_Will_Be_Done")"><span id="Fiat_Voluntas_Tua_.28.22Thy_Will_Be_Done.22.29"></span><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Fiat Voluntas Tua</i></span> ("Thy Will Be Done")</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Fiat Voluntas Tua ("Thy Will Be Done")"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the year 3781, mankind has emerged into a new technological age, and now possesses nuclear energy and weapons again, as well as <a href="/wiki/Starship" title="Starship">starships</a> and <a href="/wiki/Space_colonization" title="Space colonization">extrasolar colonies</a>. Two world superpowers, the Asian Coalition and the Atlantic Confederacy, have been embroiled in a <a href="/wiki/Cold_war_(general_term)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cold war (general term)">cold war</a> for 50 years. The Leibowitzian Order's mission of preserving the Memorabilia has expanded to the preservation of all knowledge. </p><p>Rumors that both sides are <a href="/wiki/Militarisation_of_space" title="Militarisation of space">assembling nuclear weapons in space</a>, and that a nuclear weapon has been detonated, increase public and international tensions. At the abbey, the current abbot, Dom Jethras Zerchi, recommends to New Rome that the Church reactivate the <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Quo peregrinatur grex pastor secum</i></span> ("Whither wanders the flock, the shepherd is with them"), a contingency plan in the case of another global apocalypse which involves "certain (spacefaring) vehicles" the Church has had since 3756. A "nuclear incident" occurs in the Asian Coalition city of Itu Wan: an underground nuclear explosion has destroyed the city, and the Atlantic Confederacy counters by firing a "warning shot" over the South Pacific. Rumors swirl about whether the city's devastation was deliberate or accidental. </p><p>New Rome tells Zerchi to proceed with <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Quo peregrinatur</i></span>, and to plan for departure within three days. He appoints Brother Joshua as mission leader, telling him that the mission is an emergency plan for perpetuating the Church on extrasolar colony planets in the event of a nuclear war on Earth. The Order's Memorabilia will also accompany the mission. That night the Atlantic Confederacy launches an assault against Asian Coalition space platforms. The Asian Coalition responds by using a nuclear weapon against the Confederacy capital city of Texarkana, which kills millions of people. A ten-day cease-fire is issued by the World Court. The Wanderer reappears at the rectory, at the last meal before Brother Joshua and the space-trained monks and priests depart on a secret chartered flight for New Rome, hoping to leave Earth on the starship before the cease-fire ends. </p><p>During the cease-fire, the abbey offers shelter to refugees fleeing the regions affected by <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_fallout" title="Nuclear fallout">fallout</a>, which results in a battle of wills over the <a href="/wiki/Euthanasia" title="Euthanasia">euthanasia</a> of hopelessly irradiated refugees between the abbot and a doctor from a government emergency response camp. The war resumes, and a nuclear explosion occurs near the abbey. Abbot Zerchi tries to flee to safety, bringing with him the abbey's <a href="/wiki/Ciborium_(container)" title="Ciborium (container)">ciborium</a> containing consecrated <a href="/wiki/Sacramental_bread#Catholic_Church" title="Sacramental bread">hosts</a>, but it is too late. He is trapped by the falling walls of the abbey and finds himself lying under tons of rock and bones as the abbey's ancient crypts disgorge their contents. Among them is a skull with an arrow hole in its forehead (presumably that of Brother Francis Gerard from the first section of the book). </p><p>As he lies dying under the abbey's rubble, Zerchi is startled to encounter Mrs. Grales/Rachel, a tomato peddler and <a href="/wiki/Bicephaly" class="mw-redirect" title="Bicephaly">two-headed</a> mutant. However, Mrs. Grales has been rendered unconscious by the explosion, and appears to be dying herself. As Zerchi tries to <a href="/wiki/Conditional_baptism" title="Conditional baptism">conditionally baptize</a> Rachel, she refuses, and instead takes the ciborium and administers the <a href="/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist">Eucharist</a> to him. It is implied that she is, like the <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin Mary">Virgin Mary</a>, exempt from <a href="/wiki/Original_sin" title="Original sin">original sin</a>. Zerchi soon dies, having witnessed an apparent <a href="/wiki/Miracle" title="Miracle">miracle</a>. </p><p>After the abbot's death, the scene briefly flashes to Joshua and the <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Quo peregrinatur</i></span> crew, who are preparing to launch as the nuclear explosions begin. Joshua, the last crew member to board the starship, knocks the dirt from his sandals (a reference to Matthew 10:14, "If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet"), murmuring "<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Sic transit mundus</i></span>" ("Thus passes the world", a play on the phrase <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Sic_transit_gloria_mundi" title="Sic transit gloria mundi">sic transit gloria mundi</a></i></span>, "thus passes the glory of the world"). </p><p>As a coda, a final vignette depicts the ecological aspects of the war: seabirds and fish succumb to the poisonous fallout, and a shark evades death only by moving to particularly deep water, where, it is noted, the shark was "very hungry that season". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_themes">Major themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Major themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recurrence_and_cyclical_history">Recurrence and cyclical history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Recurrence and cyclical history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scholars and critics have noted the theme of <a href="/wiki/Cyclic_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyclic history">cyclic history</a> or recurrence in Miller's works, epitomized in <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i>. David Seed, in discussing the treatment of <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust" title="Nuclear holocaust">nuclear holocaust</a> in science fiction in his book <i>American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film</i> (1992), states, "it was left to Walter M. Miller's <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i> to show recurrence taking place in a narrative spanning centuries".<sup id="cite_ref-seed_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seed-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David N. Samuelson, whose 1969 doctoral dissertation is considered the "best overall discussion" of the book, calls the "cyclical theme of technological progress and regress ... the foundation-stone on which <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i> is built".<sup id="cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dns-tlc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-roberson_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roberson-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The story's circular structure – and the <a href="/wiki/Social_cycle_theory" title="Social cycle theory">cyclical history</a> it presents – support a number of thematic and structural elements which unify its three sections. Although the novel's events take place in a fictional future, the three parts allegorically represent crucial phases of Western history. The first section, "Fiat Homo", depicts a Church preserving civilization, a counterpart to the "Age of Faith" after the Fall of Rome. The action of the second part, "Fiat Lux", focuses on a renaissance of "secular learning", echoing the "divergences of Church and State and of science and faith". "Fiat Voluntas Tua", the final part, is the analog of contemporary civilization, with its "technological marvels, its obsessions with material, worldly power, and its accelerating neglect of faith and the spirit".<sup id="cite_ref-cowart_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cowart-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In her analysis of Miller's fiction, Rose Secrest connects this theme directly to one of Miller's earlier short fiction works, quoting a passage from "The Ties that Bind", published in the May 1954 edition of <i><a href="/wiki/If_(magazine)" title="If (magazine)">If</a></i> magazine: "All societies go through three phases.... First there is the struggle to integrate in a hostile environment. Then, after integration, comes an explosive expansion of the culture-conquest.... Then a withering of the mother culture, and the rebellious rise of young cultures".<sup id="cite_ref-secrest_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-secrest-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Church_versus_state">Church versus state</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Church versus state"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The third part, "Fiat Voluntas Tua", includes a debate between future Church and state stances on abortion and <a href="/wiki/Euthanasia" title="Euthanasia">euthanasia</a>, a thematic issue representative of the larger conflict between Church and state.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Literary critic Edward Ducharme claimed that "Miller's narrative continually returns to the conflicts between the scientist's search for truth and the state's power".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_significance_and_reception">Literary significance and reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Literary significance and reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Initial response to the novel was mixed, but it drew responses from newspapers and magazines normally inattentive to science fiction. <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i> was reviewed in such notable publications as <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-cowart_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cowart-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While <i>The New Yorker</i> was negative – calling Miller a "dull, ashy writer guilty of heavy-weight irony"<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – <i>The Spectator's</i> was mixed. Also unimpressed, <i>Time</i> said, "Miller proves himself chillingly effective at communicating a kind of post-human lunar landscape of disaster", but dubbed it intellectually lightweight.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>New York Times Book Review</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s Martin Levin, however, hailed the work as an "ingenious fantasy".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i> gave the book unusual exposure outside the genre in a front-page review in the <i>Chicago Tribune Magazine of Books</i>, reviewer Edmund Fuller calling the book "an extraordinary novel".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rating it five stars out of five, <a href="/wiki/Floyd_C._Gale" class="mw-redirect" title="Floyd C. Gale">Floyd C. Gale</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Galaxy_Science_Fiction" title="Galaxy Science Fiction">Galaxy Science Fiction</a></i> said that "It has many passages of remarkable power and deserves the widest possible audience".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A decade later, <i>Time</i> re-characterized its opinion of the book, calling it "an extraordinary novel even by literary standards, [which] has flourished by word of mouth for a dozen years".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After criticizing unrealistic science fiction, <a href="/wiki/Carl_Sagan" title="Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan</a> in 1978 listed <i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i> as among stories "that are so tautly constructed, so rich in the accommodating details of an unfamiliar society that they sweep me along before I have even a chance to be critical".<sup id="cite_ref-sagan19780528_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sagan19780528-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>A Canticle for Leibowitz</i> was an early example of a genre story becoming a mainstream best-seller after large publishers entered the science-fiction market.<sup id="cite_ref-latham2009_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latham2009-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1961 it was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel" title="Hugo Award for Best Novel">Hugo Award for Best Novel</a> by <a href="/wiki/Worldcon" title="Worldcon">The World Science Fiction Convention</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the years since, praise for the work has been consistently high. It is considered a "science-fiction classic ... [and] is arguably the best novel written about nuclear apocalypse, surpassing more popularly known books like <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)" title="On the Beach (novel)">On the Beach</a></i>".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book has also generated a significant body of literary criticism, including numerous literature journal articles, books and college courses.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Acknowledging its serialization roots, literary critic David N. Samuelson writes that the novel "may be the one universally acknowledged literary masterpiece to emerge from magazine SF".<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fellow critic David Cowart places the novel in the realm of works by <a href="/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh" title="Evelyn Waugh">Evelyn Waugh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Graham_Greene" title="Graham Greene">Graham Greene</a>, and Walker Percy, in 1975 stating it "stands for many readers as the best novel ever written in the genre".<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Percy, a <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award" title="National Book Award">National Book Award</a> recipient, declared the book "a mystery: it's as if everything came together by some felicitous chance, then fell apart into normal negative entropy. I'm as mystified as ever and hold 'Canticle' in even higher esteem".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scholars and critics have explored the many themes encompassed in the novel, frequently focusing on its motifs of religion, <a href="/wiki/Cyclic_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyclic history">recurrence</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Religious_denomination" title="Religious denomination">church</a> versus <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">state</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-shippey_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shippey-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A 15-part full-cast abridged serial of the novel was adapted for radio by John Reeves<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and broadcast in 1981<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by <a href="/wiki/National_Public_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="National Public Radio">National Public Radio</a>. The serial was directed by Karl Schmidt and was produced by Schmidt with Marv Nonn. Carol Cowan narrated the production.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1992, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> broadcast a 90-minute dramatization of the first two parts, "Fiat Homo" and "Fiat Lux", with Andrew Price as Brother Francis and Michael McKenzie as Dom Paulo. The adaptation was by Donald Campbell and was directed by <a href="/wiki/Hamish_Wilson" title="Hamish Wilson">Hamish Wilson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2012 radio adaptation of "Fiat Homo, Part One of A Canticle For Leibowitz" read by Nigel Lindsay, abridged by Nick McCarty and produced by Philippa Geering for <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4_Extra" title="BBC Radio 4 Extra">BBC Radio 4 Extra</a>, was broadcast in five 30-minute parts.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sequel">Sequel</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Sequel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Saint_Leibowitz_and_the_Wild_Horse_Woman" title="Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman">Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman</a></div> <p>Toward the end of his life, Miller wrote another installment of the Abbey of Saint Leibowitz saga, <i>Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb-series_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-series-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A full-length novel (455 pages) significantly longer than its predecessor, it is set in AD 3254, eighty years after the events of "Fiat Lux" but several centuries before "Fiat Voluntas Tua". Suffering from <a href="/wiki/Writer%27s_block" title="Writer's block">writer's block</a> and fearful the new work would go unfinished, Miller arranged with author <a href="/wiki/Terry_Bisson" title="Terry Bisson">Terry Bisson</a> to complete it. Bisson said all he did was go in and tie up the loose ends Miller had left.<sup id="cite_ref-bisson_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bisson-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The novel tells the story of Brother Blacktooth St. George of the Leibowitzian abbey who, unlike Brother Francis, wants to be released from his holy vows and leave the abbey. In addition to recounting his travels as <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)">Cardinal</a> Brownpony's personal secretary, the book describes the political situation in the 33rd century as the Church and the Texark Empire vie for power. Miller died before the novel's publication.<sup id="cite_ref-bisson_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bisson-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman</i> has been called "Walter Miller's other novel". Reviewer Steven H. Silver points out that this "is not to say that <i>Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman</i> does not deserve to be read. It is a fantastic novel, only suffering in comparison to Miller's earlier work".<sup id="cite_ref-silver_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-silver-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brother Francis believes that "a Fallout" is some variety of ancient monster, which he imagines as being half-<a href="/wiki/Salamander" title="Salamander">salamander</a> and half-<a href="/wiki/Incubus" title="Incubus">incubus</a>, and he thinks that the shelter was home to fifteen Fallouts, due to the sign on its entrance.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Other relics include an electrical engineering blueprint with Leibowitz's name on it, and the skull of wife Emily Leibowitz, who was apparently caught in the outer chamber of the shelter when the bombs fell.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Pope was modeled after <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII" title="Pope John XXIII">Pope John XXIII</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2283">"Bibliography: A Canticle for Leibowitz"</a>. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-12-02</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Bibliography%3A+A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&rft.pub=The+Internet+Speculative+Fiction+Database&rft.date=2007&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.isfdb.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Ftitle.cgi%3F2283&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-seed-texts-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-seed-texts_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-seed-texts_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-seed-texts_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSeed1996" class="citation journal cs1">Seed, David (Fall 1996). 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Kent State University Press: 257–71. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3828%2Fextr.1996.37.3.257">10.3828/extr.1996.37.3.257</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Extrapolation&rft.atitle=Recycling+the+texts+of+the+culture%3A+Walter+M.+Miller%27s+%27A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&rft.ssn=fall&rft.volume=37&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=257-71&rft.date=1996&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3828%2Fextr.1996.37.3.257&rft.aulast=Seed&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dns-tlc-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-dns-tlc_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSamuelson1976" class="citation journal cs1">Samuelson, David N. (March 1976). "The Lost Canticles of Walter M. Miller, Jr". <i><a href="/wiki/Science-Fiction_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Science-Fiction Studies">Science-Fiction Studies</a></i>. <b>3</b> (26). <a href="/wiki/DePauw_University" title="DePauw University">DePauw University</a>: 3–26. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4238992">4238992</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Science-Fiction+Studies&rft.atitle=The+Lost+Canticles+of+Walter+M.+Miller%2C+Jr.&rft.volume=3&rft.issue=26&rft.pages=3-26&rft.date=1976-03&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F4238992%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Samuelson&rft.aufirst=David+N.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"A Canticle for Leibowitz falls into a well-known subgenre of science fiction, the 'post-disaster' story, like John Wyndham's <i>The Chrysalids</i> (1955), Algis Budrys's <i>Some Will Not Die</i> (1961), and many more. The use of nuclear weapons to end World War II naturally set many writers speculating on the possibilities of future war, mutation, and rebirth". <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShippey2000" class="citation book cs1">Shippey, T.A. (2000). "A Canticle for Leibowitz". <i>Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition</i>. Salem Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&rft.btitle=Masterplots+II%3A+American+Fiction+Series%2C+Revised+Edition&rft.pub=Salem+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.aulast=Shippey&rft.aufirst=T.A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-garvey-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-garvey_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGarvey1996" class="citation journal cs1">Garvey, John (1996-04-05). "A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Eulogy for Walt Miller". <i>Commonweal</i>. <b>123</b> (7). Commonweal Foundation: 7–8. <q>I went to war with very romantic ideas about war, and I came back sick.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Commonweal&rft.atitle=A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz%3A+A+Eulogy+for+Walt+Miller&rft.volume=123&rft.issue=7&rft.pages=7-8&rft.date=1996-04-05&rft.aulast=Garvey&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-roberson-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-roberson_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-roberson_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-roberson_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-roberson_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRobersonBattenfeld,_Robert_L.1992" class="citation book cs1">Roberson, Williams H.; Battenfeld, Robert L. (1992-06-30). <i>Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Bio-Bibliography</i>. Bio-Bibliographies in American Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-313-27651-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-313-27651-4"><bdi>978-0-313-27651-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Walter+M.+Miller%2C+Jr.%3A+A+Bio-Bibliography&rft.place=Westport%2C+CT&rft.series=Bio-Bibliographies+in+American+Literature&rft.pub=Greenwood+Press&rft.date=1992-06-30&rft.isbn=978-0-313-27651-4&rft.aulast=Roberson&rft.aufirst=Williams+H.&rft.au=Battenfeld%2C+Robert+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-isfdb-series-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb-series_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb-series_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1079">Saint Leibowitz</a> series listing at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a> (ISFDB). Retrieved 2012-06-11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">ISFDB catalogs them as a novelette and two novellas, which are defined by word counts 7,500–17,500 and 17,500–40,000, respectively; shorter and longer works are short stories and novels.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-walker-signposts-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-walker-signposts_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPercy1991" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Walker_Percy" title="Walker Percy">Percy, Walker</a> (1991). "Rediscovering A Canticle for Leibowitz". <i>Signposts in a Strange Land</i>. <a href="/wiki/Farrar,_Straus_and_Giroux" title="Farrar, Straus and Giroux">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</a>: 227. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-312-25419-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-312-25419-9"><bdi>0-312-25419-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Signposts+in+a+Strange+Land&rft.atitle=Rediscovering+A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&rft.pages=227&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=0-312-25419-9&rft.aulast=Percy&rft.aufirst=Walker&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Time-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Time_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Time_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWebley2010" class="citation magazine cs1">Webley, Kayla (June 7, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://entertainment.time.com/2010/06/08/top-10-post-apocalyptic-books/slide/a-canticle-for-leibowitz/">"Top Ten Post-Apocalyptic Books: A Canticle for Leibowitz"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Time&rft.atitle=Top+Ten+Post-Apocalyptic+Books%3A+A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&rft.date=2010-06-07&rft.aulast=Webley&rft.aufirst=Kayla&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.time.com%2F2010%2F06%2F08%2Ftop-10-post-apocalyptic-books%2Fslide%2Fa-canticle-for-leibowitz%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-olsen-revision-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-olsen-revision_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-olsen-revision_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-olsen-revision_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOlsen1997" class="citation journal cs1">Olsen, Alexandra H. (Summer 1997). "Re-Vision: A Comparison of A Canticle for Leibowitz and the Novellas Originally Published". <i><a href="/wiki/Extrapolation_(journal)" title="Extrapolation (journal)">Extrapolation</a></i>. <b>38</b> (2). Kent State University Press: 135. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3828%2Fextr.1997.38.2.135">10.3828/extr.1997.38.2.135</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Extrapolation&rft.atitle=Re-Vision%3A+A+Comparison+of+A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz+and+the+Novellas+Originally+Published&rft.ssn=summer&rft.volume=38&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=135&rft.date=1997&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3828%2Fextr.1997.38.2.135&rft.aulast=Olsen&rft.aufirst=Alexandra+H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-percy-rediscoveries-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-percy-rediscoveries_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPercy1971" class="citation journal cs1">Percy, Walker (1971). "Walker Percy on Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz". <i>Rediscoveries</i>. Crown Publishers.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Rediscoveries&rft.atitle=Walker+Percy+on+Walter+M.+Miller%2C+Jr.%27s+A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&rft.date=1971&rft.aulast=Percy&rft.aufirst=Walker&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMiller1960" class="citation book cs1">Miller, W. M. Jr. (1960). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/canticleforleibo0000mill"><i>A canticle for Leibowitz; a novel</i></a></span>. J.B. Lippincott Co. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1451434">1451434</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+canticle+for+Leibowitz%3B+a+novel&rft.pub=J.B.+Lippincott+Co.&rft.date=1960&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1451434&rft.aulast=Miller&rft.aufirst=W.+M.+Jr.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcanticleforleibo0000mill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/science-fiction-classic-still-smolders">"A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. 2014-10-22<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2017-03-15</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=A+Science-Fiction+Classic+Still+Smolders&rft.date=2014-10-22&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fbooks%2Fpage-turner%2Fscience-fiction-classic-still-smolders&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-seed-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-seed_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSeed1999" class="citation book cs1">Seed, David (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/americansciencef0000seed/page/158">"XI The Signs of War: Walter M. Miller and Russell Hoban"</a>. <i>American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film</i>. Routledge. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/americansciencef0000seed/page/158">158</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-57958-195-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-57958-195-4"><bdi>978-1-57958-195-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=XI+The+Signs+of+War%3A+Walter+M.+Miller+and+Russell+Hoban&rft.btitle=American+Science+Fiction+and+the+Cold+War%3A+Literature+and+Film&rft.pages=158&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-1-57958-195-4&rft.aulast=Seed&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Famericansciencef0000seed%2Fpage%2F158&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cowart-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cowart_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cowart_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCowartWyner1981" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Cowart, David; Wyner, Thomas L. 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Lanham, Maryland: <a href="/wiki/University_Press_of_America" title="University Press of America">University Press of America</a>. p. 47. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7618-2257-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7618-2257-8"><bdi>978-0-7618-2257-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Glorificemus%3A+A+Study+of+the+Fiction+of+Walter+M.+Miller%2C+Jr.&rft.place=Lanham%2C+Maryland&rft.pages=47&rft.pub=University+Press+of+America&rft.date=2002-06-28&rft.isbn=978-0-7618-2257-8&rft.aulast=Secrest&rft.aufirst=Rose&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRowland1960" class="citation journal cs1">Rowland, Stanley J. (1960-05-25). "With Moral Passion". <i>The Christian Century</i>. <b>LXXVII</b> (21): 640–1.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Christian+Century&rft.atitle=With+Moral+Passion&rft.volume=LXXVII&rft.issue=21&rft.pages=640-1&rft.date=1960-05-25&rft.aulast=Rowland&rft.aufirst=Stanley+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDucharme1966" class="citation journal cs1">Ducharme, Edward (November 1966). "A Canticle for Miller". <i>English Journal</i>. <b>55</b> (8). 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Vol. 36. 1960-04-02. p. 156.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&rft.volume=36&rft.pages=156&rft.date=1960-04-02&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AA+Canticle+for+Leibowitz" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206181527/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939646,00.html">"Mixed Fiction"</a>. <i>Time</i>. 1960-02-22. 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Miller, Jr.</a> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land" title="Stranger in a Strange Land">Stranger in a Strange Land</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle" title="The Man in the High Castle">The Man in the High Castle</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick" title="Philip K. Dick">Philip K. Dick</a> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Way_Station_(novel)" title="Way Station (novel)">Here Gather the Stars</a></i> (aka: <i>Way Station</i>) by <a href="/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak" title="Clifford D. Simak">Clifford D. Simak</a> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wanderer_(Leiber_novel)" title="The Wanderer (Leiber novel)">The Wanderer</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Leiber" title="Fritz Leiber">Fritz Leiber</a> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dune_(novel)" title="Dune (novel)">Dune</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Herbert" title="Frank Herbert">Frank Herbert</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/This_Immortal" title="This Immortal">...And Call Me Conrad</a></i> (aka: <i>This Immortal</i>) by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Zelazny" title="Roger Zelazny">Roger Zelazny</a> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress" title="The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress">The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_Light" title="Lord of Light">Lord of Light</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Zelazny" title="Roger Zelazny">Roger Zelazny</a> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar" title="Stand on Zanzibar">Stand on Zanzibar</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Brunner_(author)" title="John Brunner (author)">John Brunner</a> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness" title="The Left Hand of Darkness">The Left Hand of Darkness</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ringworld" title="Ringworld">Ringworld</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Larry_Niven" title="Larry Niven">Larry Niven</a> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_Your_Scattered_Bodies_Go" title="To Your Scattered Bodies Go">To Your Scattered Bodies Go</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer" title="Philip José Farmer">Philip José Farmer</a> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gods_Themselves" title="The Gods Themselves">The Gods Themselves</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama" title="Rendezvous with Rama">Rendezvous with Rama</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dispossessed" title="The Dispossessed">The Dispossessed</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Forever_War" title="The Forever War">The Forever War</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Haldeman" title="Joe Haldeman">Joe Haldeman</a> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Where_Late_the_Sweet_Birds_Sang" title="Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang">Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Kate_Wilhelm" title="Kate Wilhelm">Kate Wilhelm</a> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gateway_(novel)" title="Gateway (novel)">Gateway</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Frederik_Pohl" title="Frederik Pohl">Frederik Pohl</a> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dreamsnake" title="Dreamsnake">Dreamsnake</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vonda_N._McIntyre" title="Vonda N. McIntyre">Vonda N. McIntyre</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise" title="The Fountains of Paradise">The Fountains of Paradise</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Snow_Queen_(Vinge_novel)" title="The Snow Queen (Vinge novel)">The Snow Queen</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joan_D._Vinge" title="Joan D. Vinge">Joan D. Vinge</a> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Downbelow_Station" title="Downbelow Station">Downbelow Station</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/C._J._Cherryh" title="C. J. Cherryh">C. J. Cherryh</a> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Foundation%27s_Edge" title="Foundation's Edge">Foundation's Edge</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Startide_Rising" title="Startide Rising">Startide Rising</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Brin" title="David Brin">David Brin</a> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neuromancer" title="Neuromancer">Neuromancer</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Gibson" title="William Gibson">William Gibson</a> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ender%27s_Game" title="Ender's Game">Ender's Game</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card" title="Orson Scott Card">Orson Scott Card</a> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Speaker_for_the_Dead" title="Speaker for the Dead">Speaker for the Dead</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card" title="Orson Scott Card">Orson Scott Card</a> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Uplift_War" title="The Uplift War">The Uplift War</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/David_Brin" title="David Brin">David Brin</a> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cyteen" title="Cyteen">Cyteen</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/C._J._Cherryh" title="C. J. Cherryh">C. J. Cherryh</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel)" title="Hyperion (Simmons novel)">Hyperion</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Simmons" title="Dan Simmons">Dan Simmons</a> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Vor_Game" title="The Vor Game">The Vor Game</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Barrayar" title="Barrayar">Barrayar</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep" title="A Fire Upon the Deep">A Fire Upon the Deep</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vernor_Vinge" title="Vernor Vinge">Vernor Vinge</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Doomsday_Book_(novel)" title="Doomsday Book (novel)">Doomsday Book</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mars_trilogy" title="Mars trilogy">Green Mars</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson" title="Kim Stanley Robinson">Kim Stanley Robinson</a> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mirror_Dance" title="Mirror Dance">Mirror Dance</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Diamond_Age" title="The Diamond Age">The Diamond Age</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Neal_Stephenson" title="Neal Stephenson">Neal Stephenson</a> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mars_trilogy" title="Mars trilogy">Blue Mars</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson" title="Kim Stanley Robinson">Kim Stanley Robinson</a> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Forever_Peace" title="Forever Peace">Forever Peace</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Haldeman" title="Joe Haldeman">Joe Haldeman</a> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog" title="To Say Nothing of the Dog">To Say Nothing of the Dog</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky" title="A Deepness in the Sky">A Deepness in the Sky</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vernor_Vinge" title="Vernor Vinge">Vernor Vinge</a> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire" title="Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/J._K._Rowling" title="J. K. Rowling">J. K. Rowling</a> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Gods" title="American Gods">American Gods</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Neanderthal_Parallax" title="The Neanderthal Parallax">Hominids</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Sawyer" title="Robert J. Sawyer">Robert J. Sawyer</a> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paladin_of_Souls" title="Paladin of Souls">Paladin of Souls</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_%26_Mr_Norrell" title="Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell">Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Susanna_Clarke" title="Susanna Clarke">Susanna Clarke</a> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Spin_(novel)" title="Spin (novel)">Spin</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Charles_Wilson" title="Robert Charles Wilson">Robert Charles Wilson</a> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)" title="Rainbows End (Vinge novel)">Rainbows End</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Vernor_Vinge" title="Vernor Vinge">Vernor Vinge</a> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Yiddish_Policemen%27s_Union" title="The Yiddish Policemen's Union">The Yiddish Policemen's Union</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Chabon" title="Michael Chabon">Michael Chabon</a> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Graveyard_Book" title="The Graveyard Book">The Graveyard Book</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Windup_Girl" title="The Windup Girl">The Windup Girl</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Paolo_Bacigalupi" title="Paolo Bacigalupi">Paolo Bacigalupi</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/The_City_%26_the_City" title="The City & the City">The City & the City</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville" title="China Miéville">China Miéville</a> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blackout/All_Clear" title="Blackout/All Clear">Blackout/All Clear</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Among_Others" title="Among Others">Among Others</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jo_Walton" title="Jo Walton">Jo Walton</a> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Redshirts_(novel)" title="Redshirts (novel)">Redshirts</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Scalzi" title="John Scalzi">John Scalzi</a> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ancillary_Justice" title="Ancillary Justice">Ancillary Justice</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ann_Leckie" title="Ann Leckie">Ann Leckie</a> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)" title="The Three-Body Problem (novel)">The Three-Body Problem</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Cixin_Liu" class="mw-redirect" title="Cixin Liu">Cixin Liu</a>, translated by <a href="/wiki/Ken_Liu" title="Ken Liu">Ken Liu</a> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fifth_Season_(novel)" title="The Fifth Season (novel)">The Fifth Season</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/N._K._Jemisin" title="N. K. Jemisin">N. K. Jemisin</a> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Obelisk_Gate" title="The Obelisk Gate">The Obelisk Gate</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/N._K._Jemisin" title="N. K. Jemisin">N. K. Jemisin</a> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Stone_Sky" title="The Stone Sky">The Stone Sky</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/N._K._Jemisin" title="N. K. Jemisin">N. K. Jemisin</a> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Calculating_Stars" title="The Calculating Stars">The Calculating Stars</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Mary_Robinette_Kowal" title="Mary Robinette Kowal">Mary Robinette Kowal</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Memory_Called_Empire" title="A Memory Called Empire">A Memory Called Empire</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arkady_Martine" title="Arkady Martine">Arkady Martine</a> (2020)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Network_Effect_(novel)" title="Network Effect (novel)">Network Effect</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Martha_Wells" title="Martha Wells">Martha Wells</a> (2021)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Desolation_Called_Peace" title="A Desolation Called Peace">A Desolation Called Peace</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Arkady_Martine" title="Arkady Martine">Arkady Martine</a> (2022)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nettle_%26_Bone" title="Nettle & Bone">Nettle & Bone</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_Vernon" title="Ursula Vernon">T. 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