canticle for leibowitz was terrific. should be adapted to tv mini-series. nukes (and humans) r tricky. the story is told across thousands of yrs which makes u feel tiny but also not tiny. and it seems that we're gonna need some serious faith if we're to make it to the cosmos.
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I've tried and failed to get into it but I will make another attempt sometime soonish
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it doesn't have the same timeless feel as Canticle but I recently read and enjoyed Slow Apocalypse by John Varley, on
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yeah, not remotely timeless, but interesting I like left-of-center takes on right-of-center themes (and vice versa) parallax is good
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I particularly liked the "culture of life" (in the Catholic sense) aspects. won't go into detail w/ examples because spoilers, but I thought it was a good treatment of the theme "how do we retain the best of ourselves in the worst of times?"
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Lucifer's Hammer dives into this too also, tangentially, I read this a month or two back, and it's almost 50 years old, but was vaguely off in the same space, and felt fresh (and a bit more timeless than Slow Apocalypse)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tomorrow_(novel) …
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