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The three core stories were written in '55, '56 and '57. That's basically the height of the Hollywood Blacklist and the year before the John Birch Society was formed. It's 4 years after the Knights of Columbus got "Under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance. Now? Now Monty Python's Life of Brian is pushing 40 and Dawkins has sold 3 million copies of The God Delusion. I'm woefully unimpressed with Asimov. If I could recommend one piece of sci fi?It is possible that - at the time (1959) - Canticle was far more ground-breaking than it is today.