Sci-Fi Book Group: A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
By the 26th century, nuclear war has devastated planet Earth, and whatever scientific knowledge remains lies in the hands of the monks of the mysterious Albertian Order of Leibowitz. Chronicling the rise from intellectual wasteland to the reclaiming of science and technology to space colonization in the year 3781, this sci-fi classic and winner of the 1961 Hugo Award projects past cycles of history onto a future landscape.