SF

[Joe Varo]

On Thu, 27 Mar 1997 LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

> [...]
> No one has mentioned starting out on Walter Miller's A CANTICLE FOR
> LIEBOWITZ.  I was first hooked on an earlier short version that was
> later expanded into novel form.  But then I was usually more interested
> in short SF, which seemed more to the point than full novels. 

For me, the odd twist about Canticle is that I read it rather late in my
SF reading years.  So, although Canticle may have been one of the first,
if not *the* first to play on that post-apocalyptic theme, by the time I'd
gotten around to reading it it seemed rather quaint.

Joe