Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club

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Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club Online

Date:: Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Time:: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Audience:: Adult Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds High School Intergenerational Senior Citizen
Categories:: Book Club
Online:: This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

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The Durham County Library Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club will be kicking off the new year with A Canticle For Leibowitz, Walter Miller's classic novel of humanity's re-emergence in a bleak post-apocalytpic future. Copies are available from the library.

From the publisher:

"Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature -- a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future.

In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, and tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece."

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