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527. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Book Club (with Matthew Kressel, Lisa Yaszek, Joseph Reisert)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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Book Review - Nuclear War

The plot basically at this point is that in the first section we see the monks have all these old technical documents and things they have no idea. And now we're 600 years later and there's this brilliant young scientist who comes to the monastery he's actually in a position to rediscover some of the great scientific advances that had been lost in the past. Then this sets the stage for the third section of the book where society and science have all rebuilt itself and now nuclear war is is a looming potential once again.

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