I just finished 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' and I'm a little disappointed that I put off reading this book for so long.  It was a lot better than  I thought it would be, and a lot better than the first three pages indicated.  I kept reading those pages over and over and putting it back down over the last year.  I won't say too much about the novel here, I'll post a review for it in a couple days, but I'm becoming a bigger and bigger fan of science fiction that blends in some religion.  The first book I really read that gave it a shot was 'Black Easter' by James Blish, where a few guys get together and raise a bunch of demons from hell to see if they can.   It's a much better book than that one sentence makes it sound.  But I thought Canticle was pretty good, and I liked how he treated the church with some respect, often it's taking an easy shot to make the church the bad guy in a post apocalyptic novel.

I also wrote a review for 'The Eskimo Invasion' whose main claim to fame is both the weirdest title and coolest cover in all of science fiction. I recommend you check out the review for the second one.  Other than those two things it's not a great novel, but that cover really does it for me.  Heck, don't even click on the review, here it is:



What fifteen year old wouldn't hang that on their wall?

Like I said I'll be posting a review for Canticle pretty soon, and I think I'll post another one for the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson too.  I've also started 'Stations of the Tide' by Michael Swanwick and so far it looks good.