About the Book
Hugo Award 1961.
After the Fallout, when the Atomic Rain had stopped, the plagues and madness began. And after that came the simplification when the people – those who were left – turned against the rulers, the teachers, the scientists who had turned the world into a barren desert. All knowledge was destroyed, all the learned were killed – only Leibowitz managed to save some of the books...
And the monks of the order of Leibowitz inherited the sacred relics – spent their lives copying, engraving, interpreting the holy fragments, slowly fashioning a new Renaissance in a barbarous and fallen world...
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