num_pages: 338
description: Down the long centuries after the Flame Deluge scoured the earth clean, the monks of the Order of St. Leibowitz the Engineer kept alive the ancient knowledge. In their monastery in the Utah desert, the preserved the precious relics of their founder: the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list and the holy shrine of Fallout Shelter.Watched over by an immortal wanderer, they witnessed humanity's rebirth from ashes, and saw reenacted the eternal drama of the struggle between light and darkness, life and death.
language: English
title: A Canticle for Leibowitz
titlecomplete: A Canticle for Leibowitz
characters: Isaac Edward Leibowitz, Benjamin Eleazar bar Joshua
genres: Classics, Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Religion, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 106966
series: St. Leibowitz
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Locus Award
category: All-Time Best Novel
publisher: Bantam Spectra