On the latest Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, I join Lisa Yaszek, Joseph Reisert, and host David Barr Kirtley to discuss Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz, a novel about human hubris, stupidity, and preservation of knowledge in the face of ignorant nihilism. Despite the novel’s age, with all the nuclear sabre-rattling it still resonates powerfully today.

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