I first encountered “Canticle for Liebowitz” through JMS’ excellent homage to it in the 5th season episode of Babylon 5, titled “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars.” In it, set far in the future, 500 years after a war on Earth called “The Great Burn” has wiped out most life on Earth, an order of Catholic monks (secretly Anla’Shok Rangers) are preserving lost human knowledge and surreptitiously helping humanity to climb back into the light after it nearly committed suicide.
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