Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels discussion

Here is the no spoiler thread for A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)

I just began this. I keep thinking about a MR we had a couple of months ago: Anathem. Both books seem to follow a novice monk who lives in a monastery in post-apocalyptic times. Sure, there are lots of differences, too, but in these first couple of dozens of pages I keep thinking about Fraa Erasmas quite often.

Love it so far, especially the humor shining through Miller's prose. Also it seems to be terribly relevant these days in the Age of Disinformation we're all facing.

I'm at halfway point, and I've become 100% convinced Stephenson wrote Anathem directly because of this book. I'd even vager he started writing the first draft while reading Miller's book.

An interesting thought, Antti. I've read this one before Anathem, and the time between both was long enough for me not to relate them

I'm only on chapter 2 but I love how the guy just lowers himself into a pit with a light and holy water lolol

I've starting the re-read. I'm only two chapters in and I see what Antti meant about Anathem. However, I don't think that it was a direct allusion/homage but more the result that Christian monasteries in Europe had some common attitudes.

btw in the USSR the book hasn't been translated till the late 1980s (I recall the abridged version in the magazine circa 1989) because "how the author dared to assume that the Catholic church will survive the nuclear war, but the communism won't?"