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A review by softrosemint
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
4.0
It is always interesting to experience works seminal for their genres for the first time and 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' is no exception of this.
Told with a healthy dose of humour and wit (that we almost seem to have lost in the mainstream of the genre nowadays), 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' feels like a reflection on human nature. It manages to highlight the cyclical nature of history and, alongside that, the inevitability of human acts. It asks if humankind is bound to repeat the same mistakes, going though the same motions over and over again. A true testament to its poignancy, in spite of having been published in 1959, looking forwards to a future far ahead, it still feels relevant to the challenges to the society of today, in 2023.
Told with a healthy dose of humour and wit (that we almost seem to have lost in the mainstream of the genre nowadays), 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' feels like a reflection on human nature. It manages to highlight the cyclical nature of history and, alongside that, the inevitability of human acts. It asks if humankind is bound to repeat the same mistakes, going though the same motions over and over again. A true testament to its poignancy, in spite of having been published in 1959, looking forwards to a future far ahead, it still feels relevant to the challenges to the society of today, in 2023.