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Mike Resnick's lighthearted "Catastrophe Baker and a Canticle for Leibowitz" is really a space western (and thus homage to old space opera) about a freelance hero (Catastrophe Baker) and his quest to find the missing canticle of a play produced by Saul Leibowitz.
REVIEW: The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan 2009
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A Canticle for Leibowitz is a book that startled me when I read it some years ago.
MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books Worth Reading Twice 2008
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"A Canticle for Leibowitz" is fantastic, I agree Fred.
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Guardian Books Blog sez: Walter M. Miller Jr's A Canticle for Leibowitz is a direct ancestor of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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I think you'll find most SF of the 50s and 60s (A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is an excellent story BTW, even if its message isn't as relevant today) as showing that nuclear war = bad.
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If they make a movie of "Leibowitz", I'm opening my wrists.
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Then there’s the surname itself: Leibowitz, which is the vestige of a patronymic meaning “son of Leib.”
Dear Jon Stewart, Don’t Go Changin’ « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009
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It would be left to the Promotor Fidei to think that "Leibowitz," perhaps, was not an uncommon name before the Flame Deluge, and that I.E. could as easily represent "Ichabod Ebenezer" as "Isaac Edward."
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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Israeli army spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibowitz says the aim is to prevent further attacks from Gaza.
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Israeli army spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibowitz says the aim is to prevent further attacks from Gaza.
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