Anthem Libovitsa

Walter M. Miller Jr. “Anthem Libovitsa”

Blok about the author:
Walter M. Miller Jr (1922–1996)-American writer, author of stories and novel “Anthem Libovitsa” ( 1960), awarded the Hugo Award and counted on the highest achievements of world science fiction. During the war, Miller served in the crew of the bombarder, who, by the fatal accident, destroyed the ancient Roman Catholic monastery in Italy. This event made a strong impression on him, and after 10 years the story “Passion for Leibovitsa” was written about the monastic Order surviving the world in a destroyed war. Two years later, having published three stories on this subject, Miller realized that he had the basis for the novel. The publication of the novel was followed by multiple reprints in almost all world languages, and a well-deserved place in the lists of the best NF-romance of all time following the results of reader surveys.

Annotation on the book:
After a nuclear war, civilization was thrown back many centuries ago. Severe lands on which it is difficult to grow any crop. Severe people who are hateful to everything new and incomprehensible, and worst of all - to scientists, carriers of knowledge - because it was they, in the general opinion, that brought the world to the disaster.
The inhabitants of the abbey, located in the desert in the south-west of the United States, have been undergoing painstaking work for centuries, collecting all available knowledge-books, notes, oral traditions. Someday this titanic work will revive civilization.
But is it worth it to revive the world who sunk into oblivion?
What if any knowledge is fraught with fatal mistakes that inevitably leading humanity to death?