A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This work of speculative, philosophical sci fi is set in a future, dystopian post-nuclear apocalypse waste inhabited by a new Dark Ages Catholic Church clinging to the curation of knowledge as militant barbarians nibble at the edges of a cripppled civilization. Basically three works set centuries apart, I most liked the first, Fiat Homo. I think part of the reason I liked it most was the milieu was so familiar as if an imitation of Eli's realm in the "Book of Eli" film: bandits on the road, book hoarders ("bookleggers") and a hope to recapture civilized living by building a library...
The rest lost me as most sci fi does: the immensely wide canvas, limited only by a visionary's imagination, becomes such an expansive setting as to in my mind find the puny humans and what interests me - their psychological motiviatgion - lost in the immensity...
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