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Fiat Homo Free Online Audio
BBC Radio is currently running an audio version of the “Fiat Homo” section of Walter M. Miller, Jr’s hugely popular post-apocalyptic novel “A Canticle for Leibowitz.” The novel won the Hugo award in 1961 and is still in print to this day. Nigel Lindsay of BBC Radio is the narrator. Click the image above for BBC links to episodes 1 through 5. “Fiat Homo” is the first part of the novel. The story takes place in the Southwestern United States after a nuclear war devastates the planet. A thousand years after the destruction of the planet, a fictional Order of Leibowitz is preserving tattered remnants of scientific knowledge and plans to hold onto the kernels of knowledge until humanity is ready for it once again. Enjoy!
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