In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation.
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter. We are told the story of a monk order which seeks to preserve the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitzwas a Hugo Award Winner in 1961 for best science fiction novel, and triggered a whole host of scholarly research based on its themes of religion, recurrence, and church versus state. Without further ado, based on the combined nominations and votes here on the Discover Sci-Fi blog and the Facebook group, here are your top choices for the best apocalyptic tales in literary science fiction.Ī classic from 1959, Walter M. Overall in these votes we leave it up to you readers to determine the parameters beyond that basic definition, and if there are any concerns we love to hear about it in the comments.Īs always, these top ten lists are not meant to be all-inclusive or definitive, but give a great finger on the pulse of our communities interests and favorites. Want to see who missed out? Here's the original nomination list from the blog. Sometimes there are crossovers with the dystopian genre, so a novel could be dystopian as well as apocalyptic. To review our proposed definition of apocalyptic stories, they generally revolve around the Earth's technological civilization collapse. Who knew apocalyptic stories were so hard to judge!
With hundreds of total votes, our top two titles were running neck-and-neck for the entire voting period! And we had three titles in the middle that ended up four votes apart.
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