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Review For A Canticle For Leib
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Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz treats religion very differently than does most science fiction. Miller's Brother Francis is charged with discovering the meaning of faith and God in the wake of total nuclear destruction. The particular religion extent in Miller's future is the vene ....
Middle of essay ....e, the view of history, faith, and "truth" depicted in A Canticle for Leibowitz is quite dark and thought-provoking without being preachy. Knowledge of the past is unreliable and unable to prevent the same problems from plaguing humanity for eons. The things that could save humanity are ridiculed and forgotten, but the book ends with a strange feeling of success. No matter how foolish and suicidal humanity is and will become, the species will survive. Faith in ourselves seems even more a part of.... |
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