{"id":3852,"date":"2006-03-15T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2006-03-15T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T15:00:00","slug":"a-canticle-for-leibowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3852","title":{"rendered":"A Canticle for Leibowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1857230140\/qid=1142434778\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl\/026-1890594-9858838\">A Canticle for Liebowitz<\/a>, by Walter Miller. There&#8217;s a good Wikipedia page <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz\">here<\/a> if you want to discover a bit more about it.<\/p>\n<p>I loved this. Hadn&#8217;t read any sf for ages &#8211; must be at least six months &#8211; so it was great to plug back in. Lots of stimulating images, and, of course, it fitted so nicely with my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/After_Virtue\">&#8216;After Virtue&#8217;<\/a> interests. Lots of things will stay with me, but perhaps the final debate about euthanasia most of all. Very challenging, but I was grateful that the religious perspective wasn&#8217;t implicitly ridiculed, in the way that much sf would do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter Miller. There&#8217;s a good Wikipedia page here if you want to discover a bit more about it. I loved this. Hadn&#8217;t read any sf for ages &#8211; must be at least six months &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,29,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-crisis","category-sf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-108","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}