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A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ, Walter M. Miller's first novel, was first published in 1960 and was immediately hailed as a classic; now, more than 37 years later, comes Miller's second novel. This sequel to A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ is a major science fiction publishing event and confirms his unique voice - witty, ironic and sophisticated - has remained undimmed. One thousand years after a nuclear holocaust, the Catholic Church is still in a power struggle with the temporal leaders of the devastated USA, leaders who control small city-states and expanses of broken country and desert. One of the leading churchmen of this period is Cardinal Brownpony, descended from the Nomads, wanderers of mixed descent. Through his schemes, Brownpony hopes to keep the church free of takeover by men of violence - but many of his enemies work from within the church itself... SAINT LEIBOWITZ is an extraordinary novel, compelling, challenging and visionary.… (más)
Esos nómadas son los nativos americanos, con una cultura parecida a la de los pieles rojas y cuya religiosidad se compara al catolicismo restaurado. San Leibowitz se enfrenta (o tal vez colabora) con la mujer Caballo Salvaje en las visiones del protagonista, el hermano Dientenegro, obligado a viajar por un continente dividido por la naturaleza, la política, la guerra y la religión. Dientenegro participa casi involuntariamente en las intrigas y conspiraciones del cardenal Ponymarrón, para ser testigo de rebeliones, asesinatos y sacrificios humanos y, también, para conocer el pecado, que hasta ese momento la vida monacal ha mantenido a raya.
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For David, and all those who sailed against the Apocalypse
The estate of Walter M. Miller, Jr., would like to thank Terry Bisson for his editorial contribution to Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman.
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As he sat shivering in the gloomy corridor outside the meeting hall and waited for the tribunal to finish deciding his punishment, Brother Blacktooth St. George, A.O.L., remembered the time his boss uncle had taken him to see the Wild Horse Woman at a Plains Nomad tribal ceremony, and how Deacon ("Half-Breed') Brownpony, who was on a diplomatic mission to the Plains at the time, had tried to exorcise her priests with holy water and drive her spirit from the council lodge.
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The rosary that was clutched in his hand, and the crude g'tara he had left leaning against the back wall of the cave, she took with her.
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ, Walter M. Miller's first novel, was first published in 1960 and was immediately hailed as a classic; now, more than 37 years later, comes Miller's second novel. This sequel to A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ is a major science fiction publishing event and confirms his unique voice - witty, ironic and sophisticated - has remained undimmed. One thousand years after a nuclear holocaust, the Catholic Church is still in a power struggle with the temporal leaders of the devastated USA, leaders who control small city-states and expanses of broken country and desert. One of the leading churchmen of this period is Cardinal Brownpony, descended from the Nomads, wanderers of mixed descent. Through his schemes, Brownpony hopes to keep the church free of takeover by men of violence - but many of his enemies work from within the church itself... SAINT LEIBOWITZ is an extraordinary novel, compelling, challenging and visionary.
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