Speaking of apocalyptic books, no list would be complete without this one. Chronicles the rise and fall of civilization following a global nuclear war in the 1950s or 60s,from the point of view of the Monastic Order of St. Leibowitz, a religious order originally founded to preserve the remnants of our civilization in the dark ages following the nuclear holocaust. Dougs comments in the Earth Abides thread about the level of civilization that could be preserved following an apocalypse immediately brought this book to mind. books.google/books/about/Canticle_for_Leibowitz.html?id=D7o7PgAACAAJ
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