“...A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is now forgotten but I believe to be very important still.”
Not in all quarters. I know a tenured professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America who teaches this novel every year to his incoming freshmen.
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That’s good news. I’m not a true sci-fi addict, but that one really made an impression on me. I wonder how the freshmen react to it.
Still have a 1950s era paperback copy somewhere.
An interesting and far, far darker view of the same issue is Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker. It is a beautifully written book, Hoban is a powerful writer. But don't read it unless you want to be really, really depressed.