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A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic novel by Walter M. Miller Jr.. The novel is based on three short stories Miller wrote for a magazine. It won the 1961 Hugo Award for best novel. The story is set following a nuclear war at a Catholic monastery in the American Southwest, inhabited by monks of the Albertian order. The novel's timeline covers several thousand years of human civilization.

External Links

• A Canticle for Leibowitz at ISFDB.org

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