A Canticle for Leibowitz, venerated science fiction masterpiece

I had no idea there was a follow up book. I’ll have to find that one. Thank you for mentioning it. I loved this - I loved the lengthy history covered as man goes through a cycle of destruction, survival, rebirth of humanity, maturity of humanity and back again. It is not optimistic sure, yet as a cautionary tale, of sorts, well done. I left off wanting to find out more about The Maiden we meet at the end.