“From the place of ground zero, O Lord, deliver us. From the rain of…”

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From the place of ground zero,
   O Lord, deliver us.
From the rain of the cobalt,
   O Lord, deliver us.
From the rain of the strontium,
   O Lord, deliver us.
From the fall of the cesium,
   O Lord, deliver us.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller Jr. · published 1959 · read 2022-03-28

★★★★★

Damn, rating this book is hard! The first part had me thinking that it was just standard (though not standart then, of course!) far-future post-fallout sci-fi where humanity lives in its own ruins. And then the second part was alright, e