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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (62830)	10/17/2002 10:29:48 PM
From: E	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Out of curiosity and for the fun of it, I emailed a friend who's a quite well known science fiction writer to ask him what he thought of A Canticle for Leibowitz, and also what would his answer be to the question, "Is it about the Catholic church?" Here's his sort of entertaining reply to those questions. It's about as good as science fiction gets. Certainly not dreck, but maybe [you folks wouldn't like it.] I've read it twice, but not recently. You can get a fair taste by reading the first, and probably best, of three novellas that make it up. There is an overall consistent future history, a distorting mirror of medieval, renaissance, atomic age all repeated in a post atomic holocaust future (with our civilization standing in for Rome in ruins). The Catholic Church plays a similar preserving role in Miller's scheme. He was a liberal Catholic, more or less along the lines of C.S. Lewis. It's friendly to the church but not in a 50's/Bing Crosby sentimental way. And he wrote it in the course of carrying on a mad adulterous affair with Judy Merril; whom he left as soon as the book was written to return to his wife in Texas. And never wrote another book worth considering. Not a good advertisement for the straight and narrow...