Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time — A Canticle for Leibowitz: Who knew the nuclear apocalypse could be so funny?

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A Canticle for Leibowitz: Who knew the nuclear apocalypse could be so funny?

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A Canticle for Leibowitz is set in the aftermath of a horrible nuclear war. The survivors blamed science, and killed intellectuals and burned all the books they could get their hands on. A monastery in the desert of the western US is one of the few places on earth to preserve any knowledge, and the book follows the…

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