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

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Cannical for Libuets - A Review

I felt like in a lot of ways the execution of it was a little like stilted for me. But I think yeah Miller definitely wanted to put in that little nugget of hope you have Rachel who might be the innocent that the new sentient species on earth or and then you have the arc, you know, going off into space with preserving the human knowledge. There were actually a couple of TV programs that ripped away from Cannical for Libuets. If anyone has ever seen there was a Babylon 5 episode that takes place a million years in the future and they're replaying archives of a monk who it's basically they brought it. Yeah. They completely ripped off Cannical

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