Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Warpy

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1. My favorite book describing a post nuclear holocaust Dystopia

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 07:49 PM

Oct 2014

is "A Canticle for Liebowitz." If you haven't read this highly subversive little gem, do so. You might have to kick and claw your way through parts of it, especially if you don't have even a nodding acquaintance with Catholicism and the monastic tradition of the Middle Ages, it's the kind of book that sticks with you as you watch silly right wing Christians trying to rewrite the bible expunging all the sissy liberal stuff because it doesn't fit any of their preconceptions.

http://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Leibowitz-Walter-Miller-Jr/dp/0553273817

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Any Sci-Fi Fans In This Group? [View all] HuckleB Oct 2014 OP

My favorite book describing a post nuclear holocaust Dystopia Warpy Oct 2014 #1

+1 HuckleB Oct 2014 #3

It's not sci-fi AlbertCat Oct 2014 #2

I'll give you that! HuckleB Oct 2014 #4

I've been reading s-f for about SheilaT Oct 2014 #5

Awesome! HuckleB Oct 2014 #6

The Truth Machine MicaelS Oct 2014 #8

Have you read it? SheilaT Oct 2014 #9

Yes, I have read both books. MicaelS Oct 2014 #12

Just another example of how two people SheilaT Oct 2014 #13

Sounds like good stuff! HuckleB Oct 2014 #10

Well, not an NGO. DetlefK Oct 2014 #7

Awesome! Thanks for the tips! HuckleB Oct 2014 #11

Fritz Leiber's "Poor Superman" is a Fifties example. Orsino Oct 2014 #14

Ah, fantastic. HuckleB Oct 2014 #15