Post-apocalyptic book involving the Catholic Church
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I remember a book where it took place during a nuclear war, and these people destroyed books and other things and killed people who knew how to read. Then it skipped 600 years forward three times and introduced three central characters. All these characters were Catholics. What is this book called and who is it by?
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I remember a book where it took place during a nuclear war, and these people destroyed books and other things and killed people who knew how to read. Then it skipped 600 years forward three times and introduced three central characters. All these characters were Catholics. What is this book called and who is it by?
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The Book of Revelations? :)
– Paul
Nov 21 at 19:22
For a roughly analogous (but completely different and desperately weird) short story, you might look up Stephen Baxter's Inherit the Earth in Traces. This isn't the droid you're looking for; but if you're into post-apocalyptic Catholics (of a sort), then this might scratch your itch.
– kookaburra
Nov 21 at 20:19
@Paul Where is the Catholic Church mentioned in the Book of Revelations?
– user14111
Nov 23 at 2:22
@user14111 it was a joke, friend. But if I'm being pedantic, "involving" could be taken either way.
– Paul
Nov 23 at 3:31
@Paul (1) There is nothing especially Catholic about the Book of Revelations; there are some differences between Catholic and Protestant Bibles, but as far as I know Revelations is the same in both of them. (2) As I understand it, the policy of this site discourages jokes about religion in comments, even if funny. (Not saying yours was.)
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I remember a book where it took place during a nuclear war, and these people destroyed books and other things and killed people who knew how to read. Then it skipped 600 years forward three times and introduced three central characters. All these characters were Catholics. What is this book called and who is it by?
story-identification books post-apocalyptic
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Corvo Attano
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R. Miller
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I remember a book where it took place during a nuclear war, and these people destroyed books and other things and killed people who knew how to read. Then it skipped 600 years forward three times and introduced three central characters. All these characters were Catholics. What is this book called and who is it by?
story-identification books post-apocalyptic
story-identification books post-apocalyptic
edited Nov 22 at 3:11
Corvo Attano
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asked Nov 21 at 18:39
R. Miller
10613
edited Nov 22 at 3:11
Corvo Attano
18015
asked Nov 21 at 18:39
R. Miller
10613
edited Nov 22 at 3:11
Corvo Attano
18015
edited Nov 22 at 3:11
Corvo Attano
18015
edited Nov 22 at 3:11
Corvo Attano
18015
18015
asked Nov 21 at 18:39
R. Miller
10613
asked Nov 21 at 18:39
R. Miller
10613
asked Nov 21 at 18:39
R. Miller
10613
10613
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The Book of Revelations? :)
– Paul
Nov 21 at 19:22
For a roughly analogous (but completely different and desperately weird) short story, you might look up Stephen Baxter's Inherit the Earth in Traces. This isn't the droid you're looking for; but if you're into post-apocalyptic Catholics (of a sort), then this might scratch your itch.
– kookaburra
Nov 21 at 20:19
@Paul Where is the Catholic Church mentioned in the Book of Revelations?
– user14111
Nov 23 at 2:22
@user14111 it was a joke, friend. But if I'm being pedantic, "involving" could be taken either way.
– Paul
Nov 23 at 3:31
@Paul (1) There is nothing especially Catholic about the Book of Revelations; there are some differences between Catholic and Protestant Bibles, but as far as I know Revelations is the same in both of them. (2) As I understand it, the policy of this site discourages jokes about religion in comments, even if funny. (Not saying yours was.)
– user14111
Nov 23 at 5:56
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The Book of Revelations? :)
– Paul
Nov 21 at 19:22
For a roughly analogous (but completely different and desperately weird) short story, you might look up Stephen Baxter's Inherit the Earth in Traces. This isn't the droid you're looking for; but if you're into post-apocalyptic Catholics (of a sort), then this might scratch your itch.
– kookaburra
Nov 21 at 20:19
@Paul Where is the Catholic Church mentioned in the Book of Revelations?
– user14111
Nov 23 at 2:22
@user14111 it was a joke, friend. But if I'm being pedantic, "involving" could be taken either way.
– Paul
Nov 23 at 3:31
@Paul (1) There is nothing especially Catholic about the Book of Revelations; there are some differences between Catholic and Protestant Bibles, but as far as I know Revelations is the same in both of them. (2) As I understand it, the policy of this site discourages jokes about religion in comments, even if funny. (Not saying yours was.)
– user14111
Nov 23 at 5:56
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The Book of Revelations? :)
– Paul
Nov 21 at 19:22
The Book of Revelations? :)
– Paul
Nov 21 at 19:22
For a roughly analogous (but completely different and desperately weird) short story, you might look up Stephen Baxter's Inherit the Earth in Traces. This isn't the droid you're looking for; but if you're into post-apocalyptic Catholics (of a sort), then this might scratch your itch.
– kookaburra
Nov 21 at 20:19
For a roughly analogous (but completely different and desperately weird) short story, you might look up Stephen Baxter's Inherit the Earth in Traces. This isn't the droid you're looking for; but if you're into post-apocalyptic Catholics (of a sort), then this might scratch your itch.
– kookaburra
Nov 21 at 20:19
@Paul Where is the Catholic Church mentioned in the Book of Revelations?
– user14111
Nov 23 at 2:22
@Paul Where is the Catholic Church mentioned in the Book of Revelations?
– user14111
Nov 23 at 2:22
@user14111 it was a joke, friend. But if I'm being pedantic, "involving" could be taken either way.
– Paul
Nov 23 at 3:31
@user14111 it was a joke, friend. But if I'm being pedantic, "involving" could be taken either way.
– Paul
Nov 23 at 3:31
@Paul (1) There is nothing especially Catholic about the Book of Revelations; there are some differences between Catholic and Protestant Bibles, but as far as I know Revelations is the same in both of them. (2) As I understand it, the policy of this site discourages jokes about religion in comments, even if funny. (Not saying yours was.)
– user14111
Nov 23 at 5:56
@Paul (1) There is nothing especially Catholic about the Book of Revelations; there are some differences between Catholic and Protestant Bibles, but as far as I know Revelations is the same in both of them. (2) As I understand it, the policy of this site discourages jokes about religion in comments, even if funny. (Not saying yours was.)
– user14111
Nov 23 at 5:56
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This is likely A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
After 20th century civilization was destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge", there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification", anyone of learning, and eventually anyone who could even read, was likely to be killed by rampaging mobs, who proudly took on the name of "Simpletons". Illiteracy became almost universal, and books were destroyed en masse.
Isaac Edward Leibowitz had been a Jewish electrical engineer working for the United States military. Surviving the war, he became dedicated to preserving knowledge by hiding books, smuggling them to safety (booklegging), memorizing, and copying them. Eventually, whether by Leibowitz' intention or simply through the sanctification of repetition, his supporters and followers became a monastic order, the "Albertian Order of Leibowitz", dedicated to preserving knowledge. The Order's abbey is located in the American southwestern desert, near the military base where Leibowitz worked before the war, on an old road that may have been "a portion of the shortest route from the Great Salt Lake to Old El Paso". Leibowitz was eventually betrayed and martyred. Later beatified by the Roman Catholic Church, he became a candidate for sainthood.
Six hundred years after his death, the abbey still preserves the "Memorabilia", the collected writings that have survived the Flame Deluge and the Simplification, in the hope that they will help future generations reclaim forgotten science.
The story is structured in three parts: "Fiat Homo", "Fiat Lux", and "Fiat Voluntas Tua". The parts are separated by periods of six centuries each.
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Amazingly enough, we don't have an accepted Story-ID answer for this work... so far not this one either.
– FuzzyBoots
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The asker should almost certainly recognise your answer if it turned out to be what he was looking for - he seems to share the same last name as the author of the work you cited - amazing coincidence, and sure to jog one's memory! :)
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This is undoubtedly the correct answer. How many sci-fi novels are there involving the Catholic Church? (Maybe Hyperion by Dan Simmons?) Classic novel.
– RobertF
Nov 23 at 3:07
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This is likely A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
After 20th century civilization was destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge", there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification", anyone of learning, and eventually anyone who could even read, was likely to be killed by rampaging mobs, who proudly took on the name of "Simpletons". Illiteracy became almost universal, and books were destroyed en masse.
Isaac Edward Leibowitz had been a Jewish electrical engineer working for the United States military. Surviving the war, he became dedicated to preserving knowledge by hiding books, smuggling them to safety (booklegging), memorizing, and copying them. Eventually, whether by Leibowitz' intention or simply through the sanctification of repetition, his supporters and followers became a monastic order, the "Albertian Order of Leibowitz", dedicated to preserving knowledge. The Order's abbey is located in the American southwestern desert, near the military base where Leibowitz worked before the war, on an old road that may have been "a portion of the shortest route from the Great Salt Lake to Old El Paso". Leibowitz was eventually betrayed and martyred. Later beatified by the Roman Catholic Church, he became a candidate for sainthood.
Six hundred years after his death, the abbey still preserves the "Memorabilia", the collected writings that have survived the Flame Deluge and the Simplification, in the hope that they will help future generations reclaim forgotten science.
The story is structured in three parts: "Fiat Homo", "Fiat Lux", and "Fiat Voluntas Tua". The parts are separated by periods of six centuries each.
answered Nov 21 at 18:45
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– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 18:46
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Amazingly enough, we don't have an accepted Story-ID answer for this work... so far not this one either.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 20:52
The asker should almost certainly recognise your answer if it turned out to be what he was looking for - he seems to share the same last name as the author of the work you cited - amazing coincidence, and sure to jog one's memory! :)
– Deepak
Nov 22 at 14:13
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This is undoubtedly the correct answer. How many sci-fi novels are there involving the Catholic Church? (Maybe Hyperion by Dan Simmons?) Classic novel.
– RobertF
Nov 23 at 3:07
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This is likely A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
After 20th century civilization was destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge", there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification", anyone of learning, and eventually anyone who could even read, was likely to be killed by rampaging mobs, who proudly took on the name of "Simpletons". Illiteracy became almost universal, and books were destroyed en masse.
Isaac Edward Leibowitz had been a Jewish electrical engineer working for the United States military. Surviving the war, he became dedicated to preserving knowledge by hiding books, smuggling them to safety (booklegging), memorizing, and copying them. Eventually, whether by Leibowitz' intention or simply through the sanctification of repetition, his supporters and followers became a monastic order, the "Albertian Order of Leibowitz", dedicated to preserving knowledge. The Order's abbey is located in the American southwestern desert, near the military base where Leibowitz worked before the war, on an old road that may have been "a portion of the shortest route from the Great Salt Lake to Old El Paso". Leibowitz was eventually betrayed and martyred. Later beatified by the Roman Catholic Church, he became a candidate for sainthood.
Six hundred years after his death, the abbey still preserves the "Memorabilia", the collected writings that have survived the Flame Deluge and the Simplification, in the hope that they will help future generations reclaim forgotten science.
The story is structured in three parts: "Fiat Homo", "Fiat Lux", and "Fiat Voluntas Tua". The parts are separated by periods of six centuries each.
answered Nov 21 at 18:45
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If this is the correct answer, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 18:46
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Amazingly enough, we don't have an accepted Story-ID answer for this work... so far not this one either.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 20:52
The asker should almost certainly recognise your answer if it turned out to be what he was looking for - he seems to share the same last name as the author of the work you cited - amazing coincidence, and sure to jog one's memory! :)
– Deepak
Nov 22 at 14:13
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This is undoubtedly the correct answer. How many sci-fi novels are there involving the Catholic Church? (Maybe Hyperion by Dan Simmons?) Classic novel.
– RobertF
Nov 23 at 3:07
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This is likely A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
After 20th century civilization was destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge", there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification", anyone of learning, and eventually anyone who could even read, was likely to be killed by rampaging mobs, who proudly took on the name of "Simpletons". Illiteracy became almost universal, and books were destroyed en masse.
Isaac Edward Leibowitz had been a Jewish electrical engineer working for the United States military. Surviving the war, he became dedicated to preserving knowledge by hiding books, smuggling them to safety (booklegging), memorizing, and copying them. Eventually, whether by Leibowitz' intention or simply through the sanctification of repetition, his supporters and followers became a monastic order, the "Albertian Order of Leibowitz", dedicated to preserving knowledge. The Order's abbey is located in the American southwestern desert, near the military base where Leibowitz worked before the war, on an old road that may have been "a portion of the shortest route from the Great Salt Lake to Old El Paso". Leibowitz was eventually betrayed and martyred. Later beatified by the Roman Catholic Church, he became a candidate for sainthood.
Six hundred years after his death, the abbey still preserves the "Memorabilia", the collected writings that have survived the Flame Deluge and the Simplification, in the hope that they will help future generations reclaim forgotten science.
The story is structured in three parts: "Fiat Homo", "Fiat Lux", and "Fiat Voluntas Tua". The parts are separated by periods of six centuries each.
answered Nov 21 at 18:45
FuzzyBoots
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This is likely A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
After 20th century civilization was destroyed by a global nuclear war, known as the "Flame Deluge", there was a violent backlash against the culture of advanced knowledge and technology that had led to the development of nuclear weapons. During this backlash, called the "Simplification", anyone of learning, and eventually anyone who could even read, was likely to be killed by rampaging mobs, who proudly took on the name of "Simpletons". Illiteracy became almost universal, and books were destroyed en masse.
Isaac Edward Leibowitz had been a Jewish electrical engineer working for the United States military. Surviving the war, he became dedicated to preserving knowledge by hiding books, smuggling them to safety (booklegging), memorizing, and copying them. Eventually, whether by Leibowitz' intention or simply through the sanctification of repetition, his supporters and followers became a monastic order, the "Albertian Order of Leibowitz", dedicated to preserving knowledge. The Order's abbey is located in the American southwestern desert, near the military base where Leibowitz worked before the war, on an old road that may have been "a portion of the shortest route from the Great Salt Lake to Old El Paso". Leibowitz was eventually betrayed and martyred. Later beatified by the Roman Catholic Church, he became a candidate for sainthood.
Six hundred years after his death, the abbey still preserves the "Memorabilia", the collected writings that have survived the Flame Deluge and the Simplification, in the hope that they will help future generations reclaim forgotten science.
The story is structured in three parts: "Fiat Homo", "Fiat Lux", and "Fiat Voluntas Tua". The parts are separated by periods of six centuries each.
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– FuzzyBoots
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Amazingly enough, we don't have an accepted Story-ID answer for this work... so far not this one either.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 20:52
The asker should almost certainly recognise your answer if it turned out to be what he was looking for - he seems to share the same last name as the author of the work you cited - amazing coincidence, and sure to jog one's memory! :)
– Deepak
Nov 22 at 14:13
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This is undoubtedly the correct answer. How many sci-fi novels are there involving the Catholic Church? (Maybe Hyperion by Dan Simmons?) Classic novel.
– RobertF
Nov 23 at 3:07
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If this is the correct answer, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 18:46
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Amazingly enough, we don't have an accepted Story-ID answer for this work... so far not this one either.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 20:52
The asker should almost certainly recognise your answer if it turned out to be what he was looking for - he seems to share the same last name as the author of the work you cited - amazing coincidence, and sure to jog one's memory! :)
– Deepak
Nov 22 at 14:13
2
This is undoubtedly the correct answer. How many sci-fi novels are there involving the Catholic Church? (Maybe Hyperion by Dan Simmons?) Classic novel.
– RobertF
Nov 23 at 3:07
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If this is the correct answer, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 18:46
If this is the correct answer, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 18:46
1
1
Amazingly enough, we don't have an accepted Story-ID answer for this work... so far not this one either.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 20:52
Amazingly enough, we don't have an accepted Story-ID answer for this work... so far not this one either.
– FuzzyBoots
Nov 21 at 20:52
The asker should almost certainly recognise your answer if it turned out to be what he was looking for - he seems to share the same last name as the author of the work you cited - amazing coincidence, and sure to jog one's memory! :)
– Deepak
Nov 22 at 14:13
The asker should almost certainly recognise your answer if it turned out to be what he was looking for - he seems to share the same last name as the author of the work you cited - amazing coincidence, and sure to jog one's memory! :)
– Deepak
Nov 22 at 14:13
2
2
This is undoubtedly the correct answer. How many sci-fi novels are there involving the Catholic Church? (Maybe Hyperion by Dan Simmons?) Classic novel.
– RobertF
Nov 23 at 3:07
This is undoubtedly the correct answer. How many sci-fi novels are there involving the Catholic Church? (Maybe Hyperion by Dan Simmons?) Classic novel.
– RobertF
Nov 23 at 3:07
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The Book of Revelations? :)
– Paul
Nov 21 at 19:22
For a roughly analogous (but completely different and desperately weird) short story, you might look up Stephen Baxter's Inherit the Earth in Traces. This isn't the droid you're looking for; but if you're into post-apocalyptic Catholics (of a sort), then this might scratch your itch.
– kookaburra
Nov 21 at 20:19
@Paul Where is the Catholic Church mentioned in the Book of Revelations?
– user14111
Nov 23 at 2:22
@user14111 it was a joke, friend. But if I'm being pedantic, "involving" could be taken either way.
– Paul
Nov 23 at 3:31
@Paul (1) There is nothing especially Catholic about the Book of Revelations; there are some differences between Catholic and Protestant Bibles, but as far as I know Revelations is the same in both of them. (2) As I understand it, the policy of this site discourages jokes about religion in comments, even if funny. (Not saying yours was.)
– user14111
Nov 23 at 5:56