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12. 1972 Bantam Mass Market Paperback: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...- The ISBN-13 is missing. It should be 9780553068832.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
After the nuclear deluge the Blessed Leibowitz, dead now, lo, these 600 years, was due for canonization. Only the Leibowitzian records of the destroyed civilization remained. And monks spent lifetimes illuminating and inter- preting his works in order to reconstruct the world as it had been.
Several Blessed Mysteries remained. There was the document that read “Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels – bring home.” That was a knotty one. But the monks knew that the truth would come someday – and the world would begin again.
Do you say, “ridiculous?” Well, look underneath.
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ is a deeply challenging novel – “angry, eloquent...a terrific story.” (The New York Times)
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13. Library Edition CD Audiobook: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9781455120222)
- Tom Weiner needs to be added with the Narrator role.
- The page count is incorrect. It should be 11.
- The cover art is incorrectly set to one of the recent paperback editions. Correct cover art here: https://dsxuu8etcj8kw.cloudfront.net/... // https://www.blackstonelibrary.com/a-c...
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14. 1986 Perennial Edition: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780060913212)
- The publisher is incorrect. It should be Harper & Row.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
The story centers around Leibowitz, a technician turned monk who founded a monastery in the Southwest after our present civilization was destroyed in a nuclear war. Leibowitz witnesses a new Renaissance and the shifting of power from the church to secular states. And he encounters, in passing years, a new age of secularism, space travel, and hydrogen weapons. A work of gripping science fiction, Miller’s classic saga is as well a penetrating probe into man's destructive nature.
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15. SF Masterworks Hardcover (2001): A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780575072206)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:
After the bombs and the Fallout came the plagues and the madness. Then, in the bloodletting known as the Age of Simplification, the people – those few who remained – rose up against their teachers, their scientists and their rulers, those they held responsible for turning the world into a barren desert. All books and documents were destroyed and lost.
But a novice monk, scrabbling in the ruins of a Fallout shelter, finds some precious fragments, handwritten by the blessed I. E. Leibowitz, the legendary founder of his Order. These few scraps are a major discovery for the monks trying to accumulate and preserve the scattered knowledge of the past. They spend their lives copying, illuminating and interpreting the holy relics. And so the cycle of learning and destruction begins again . . .
A Canticle for Leibowitz, the richly deserving winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for best novel, is one of the few science fiction works to deal with formal religion and must rank as one of the very great religious novels of the twentieth century. Brilliant and provocative, it is a classic of the post-nuclear age and an elegant, ironic and moving book of visionary power. It is universally acclaimed as one of the finest works of modern science fiction.
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16. 1978 Bantam Paperback: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780553121803)
- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as #12.
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17. Another Really Early Edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as #10.
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18. Another Bantam Paperback: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as #12.
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19. Corgi Edition: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780552084017)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
Pound pastrami
Can kraut
Six Bagels
Bring home for Emma
This was the sacred document . . . the precious relic of the Blessed Leibowitz . . . found in a desert tomb by Brother Francis during his novitiate ordeal . . .
These, and the other sacred relics, the algebra texts, the architectural prints, the abstract machine plans, were all that remained of the ancient civilisation – the pre-atomic civilisation. And the monks of the order of Leibowitz spent their lives copying, engraving, interpreting the holy relics – trying to save the wisdom of the ancients from the destruction threatened by a barbaric and medieval world . . .
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ – the classic novel of a new dark age – and of a new Renaissance . . .
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20. Black Swan Edition: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780552991070)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
First there was the Fallout, the plagues and the madness. Then began the bloodletting of the Simplification, when the people – those who were left – turned against the rulers, the teachers and the scientists who had turned the world into a barren desert where great clouds of wrath had destroyed the forests and the fields. All knowledge was destroyed, all the learned killed – only Leibowitz managed to save some of his books.
And the monks of the Order of Leibowitz inherited the sacred relics. They spent their lives copying, illuminating and interpreting the holy fragments, slowly fashioning a new Renaissance in a barbarous and fallen world.
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ is the brilliant and provocative classic of the post-nuclear age, ranking with 1984 and Brave New World in its visionary power.
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21. Invalid Editions
All of these were created by the bot and need to be invalidated.
A. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
B. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
C. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
D. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
E. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
F. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
G. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
H. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
I. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
J. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
K. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
L. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
M. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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22. All Editions: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
- The Original Publication Date is incorrect. It should be 1960. The book’s copyright page says 1959, and this is the year the book was copyrighted, but it wasn’t actually released until 1960. You can tell because it won the Hugo Award in 1961, and they would not have a 2-year-old book up for the yearly award.
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1. 2006 Paperback: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780060892999)
- The publisher is incorrect. It should just be Eos.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature – a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future.
In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes. Seriously funny, stunning, and tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.
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2. 2007 Mass Market Paperback: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780553273816)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
AFTER THE FALL. . .THE REBIRTH
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter.
In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself – for meaning, for truth, for love – that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashes.
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3. 1982 Bantam Mass Market Paperback: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780553209907)
- The publication date is incorrect. According to the copyright page, it should be February 1982.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
AFTER THE FALL
Down the long centuries after the Flame Deluge scoured the earth clean, the monks of the Order of St. Leibowitz the Engineer kept alive the ancient knowledge. In their monastery in the Utah desert, they preserved the precious relics of their founder: the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list and the holy shrine of Fallout Shelter.
Watched over by an immortal wanderer, they witnessed humanity's rebirth from ashes, and saw reenacted the eternal drama of the struggle between light and darkness, life and death.
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4. Current UK Paperback: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780356513171)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
A Canticle for Leibowitz is regarded as a masterpiece of twentieth-century science fiction – a sharp, satirical examination of humanity that is chilling, provocative, and endlessly imaginative.
The atomic Flame Deluge was over.
The Earth was dead.
All knowledge was gone.
In a hellish, barren desert, a humble monk unearths a fragile link to a twentieth-century civilization. A handwritten document from the Blessed Saint Leibowitz that reads:
Pound pastrami
can kraut
six bagels
– bring home for Emma
Could this holiest of relics hold the key to humanity’s salvation?
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5. 1980 Bantam Paperback: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780553141245)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
BY THE TIME OF THE 32ND CENTURY
The atomic Flame Deluge was over.
The earth was dead.
All knowledge was gone.
In a hellish, barren desert, a humble monk unearths a fragile link to 20th-century civilization. A handwritten document from the Blessed Saint Leibowitz that reads: pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels – bring home for Emma.
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6. 1972 Bantam Mass Market Paperback: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780553257496)
- The publication date is incorrect. It should be December 1974.
- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as #5.
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7. SF Masterworks Hardcover (2013): A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9780575073579)
- Ken MacLeod needs to be added with the Introduction role.
- The publisher is incorrect. It should be Gateway.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, the rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of knowledge.
By studying the Holy Relics of the past, the Order of St Leibowitz hopes to raise humanity from its fallen state to one of grace.
But is such knowledge the key to salvation? Or the certain sign that we are doomed to repeat our most grievous mistakes...?
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8. SF Masterworks Kindle: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ASIN B00QFLKN0A)
- Ken MacLeod needs to be added with the Introduction role.
- The publisher is incorrect. It should be Gateway.
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9. SF Masterworks Ebook: A Canticle for Leibowitz (ISBN 9781473211117)
- Ken MacLeod needs to be added with the Introduction role.
- The publisher is incorrect. It should be Gateway.
- The description is incorrect. It should be the same as #7.
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10. First Edition Hardcover: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:
In the new Dark Ages at the end of the twentieth century, I. E. Leibowitz, a security-risk scientist, founded a monastic community to preserve the few books that survived the first Atomic Deluge and the Age of Simplification. This isolated community in the desert was later to be known as the Albertian Order of St. Leibowitz – and the little store of knowledge that the monks kept intact leads man into a new Renaissance and a new age of technology. Then, through the compassionate and troubled eyes of the Albertian monks, the reader sees man stumbling once again toward destruction, barely able to discern his last chance for redemption.
This is a chronicle of beauty and tenderness, of violence and hatred, of despair and humor; of such incandescent characters as gentle Brother Francis, who spends fifteen years making an illuminated copy of an electronic circuit design by the Blessed Leibowitz; Benjamin, the quizzical wandering Jew who searches through the centuries for the One who called him from the grave; the impudent Poet with a removable conscience; and Rachel, green-eyed innocence flowering in ultimate destruction.
The conjunction of day-by-day life with the sweep of centuries, of individual characters and masses of men – all viewed under the aspect of eternity – makes A Canticle for Leibowitz a unique experience in faith and adventure, in raw humanity and in the exploration of the spirit.
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11. Book Club Edition First Edition Hardcover: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
- “SFBC Edition” in the Editions field should be changed to Book Club Edition. The SFBC is a different line of editions that this one is not in.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:
A Canticle for Leibowitz chronicles the slow and painful recovery of human civilization from near annihilation by thermonuclear war.
Isaac Edward Leibowitz, an obscure scientist, saw the destruction of his world in the Flame Deluge. Until his martyrdom at the hands of a crazed, book-burning mob, he had dedicated his life to the recovery and preservation of “pre-deluge” knowledge. Eventually, the Roman Church, one of the few organizations to survive the holocaust, made him a Saint and established an Abbey in his name to continue the important task of keeping safe the small remains of human knowledge.
Against ignorance, superstition, and savage barbarian hordes, the faithful Monks of Leibowitz cherish their scraps of truth and keep alive a tradition of scholarship in a world which regards mere literacy with deadly fear. Amid radioactive debris and roving bands of grotesque mutants, the Brothers give living witness to the belief that someday mankind will arise from the ruins of his own making.
After a Dark Age lasting centuries, the beginnings of a renaissance can be seen. Leibowitz Abbey begins to attract visitors. They come for diverse reasons. Some come for knowledge . . . others want to obtain valuable books . . . some await a Promised One . . . some seek truth . . . and others come to preserve another ancient tradition – that of war.
The spark nurtured for so long at Leibowitz Abbey at last kindles a flame of scientific and technological achievement. Starships journey forth to found colonies . . . men and women no longer spend their entire lives toiling for a squalid existence . . . and, to the dismay of the Church, nations again arise, arming themselves with the fearful engines of universal destruction.
The world still bears the scars of the Flame Deluge in seared wastelands and in the mutant flesh still being born. The next war will be the last. The Brothers of the Order of St. Leibowitz can only watch, pray and prepare for the unthinkable.