In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter.In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself—for meaning, for truth, for love—that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashes.

Product Description: Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel One of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, this is a chilling, provocative look at a postapocalyptic future. A true landmark of twentieth-century literature...read more

Product Description: A space rover has no business with a family. But what can a man in the full vigor of youth do -- if his heart cries out for a home? A wayfarer's return from a far country to his wife and family may be a shining experience, a kind of second honeymoon...read more

Product Description: The manner in which a man has lived is often the key to the way he will die. Take old man Donegal, for example. Most of his adult life was spent in digging a hole through space to learn what was on the other side. He had to be fated, didn't he, to go out the same way?

Product Description: John Smith XVI, new President of the Western Federation of Autonomous States, had made a number of campaign promises that nobody really expected him to fulfill, for after all, the campaign and the election were only ceremonies, and the President -- who had no real name of his own -- had been trained for the executive post since birth...read more

'Tales whose treatment of character [is] effortlessly complex...he transfigured conventional sf themes and instruments...by treating them with a rich ambivalence' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Twenty-one short stories explore the nature of life in the aftermath of a nuclear war, in an anthology that features works by such distinguished science fiction authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, and Harlan Ellison. Reprint.

The longawaited sequel to the sciencefiction bestseller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, which was published in 1959, continues its chronicle of life in America after World War III, in a tale of the survival of the human spirit. Reprint.

Science fiction short stories explore the nature of life in the aftermath of a nuclear war