A masterful achievement that ranks with "Brave New World" and "1984", this mesmerizing tale of the terrible aftermath of nuclear war has captivated generations of readers since its first publication in 1959. "Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim".--"Chicago Tribune."

Brother Blacktooth St. George, a resident of the Abbey of San Leibowitz in the thirty-second century, is torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, but a whole new world is opened to him when he accepts an assignment that leads him out of the shelter of monastic life.