10/01/2012

October 1: A Canticle for Leibowitz

October 1959 is the month Walter Miller, Jr.'s apocalyptically-themed classic "A Canticle for Leibowitz" was first published in book form, after parts had appeared as novellas in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction starting in 1955. The book, which follows the slow re-emergence of civilization after a nuclear war, won the 1961 Hugo award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

This dramaztization of the book (available free online) was created for Wisconsin Public Radio in 1981.