![]() ![]() ![]() “In that last third you’ve got a man from the church and a man from the state arguing over the fate of women and children, and the women and children don’t seem to have a voice,” she says. Science fiction professor Lisa Yaszek wishes Miller had included a wider range of viewpoints. One way in which the novel has aged poorly is in its treatment of women characters, who are largely absent from the story. “But when we’re in this sort of zoomed-out view, looking at the whole world and all the stuff that’s going on, I wasn’t as connected with the story.” “I think that when we’re in a close third-person point of view and really feeling it, like when Brother Francis is about to lose 10 years of his work or when we’re hearing this horror story of someone having to euthanize a beloved cat, I was really, really connected with it,” he says. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel enjoyed the book but felt that it was sometimes slow or uneven. “And so I think this is why people do need to keep reading and writing books like this, because it’s so easy to get complacent about these sorts of dangers.” “You had all these books and movies in the ’50s and 60’s and ’70s, I guess into the ’80s, and then people were like, ‘Well, don’t have to worry about that anymore,’ when really the situation had not changed, materially, that much,” he says. ![]() Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley agrees that A Canticle for Leibowitz is an amazing accomplishment and notes that its warning about the danger of nuclear war feels highly relevant in light of recent events. ![]()
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