Book Review: A Canticle for Leibowitz
Book Name: A Canticle for Leibowitz Book Summary The book deals with a journey across time, where the only constants are the Church, war, paranoia, and the disastrous human tendency to make the same mistakes again and again. The book places its emphasis on the challenge of preserving knowledge, understanding it, and repeating the same cycles of history. The scope of the book spans over a thousand years, where human civilization goes from a desolate, religiously oriented, post-nuclear apocalyptic world to a medieval one where tribalism dominates. The world slowly opens its eyes to new avenues of understanding its history from the point of view of science. The ending of the book culminates in a developed world where human civilization has progressed to achieve interstellar travel, yet is still as divided as ever. The book ends with the world wrecked, pushed into apocalypse yet again. How scores of humans navigate this world throughout the eons determines the flow of the story. ...