Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn

This is odd. The next Cormac McCarthy novel will be set in some post-apocalyptic America. OK, it's not that odd, as his characters tend to be alone in vast spaces, and Blood Meridian had a apocalyptic feel to it. I've seen people compare the new McCarthy to a book called Riddley Walker, another post-apocalyptic novel in which we see the English language devolve/evolve. And that of course sounds a lot like A Clockwork Orange. Anyway, I wasn't that keen on the last McCarthy, so I am wondering what this one will be like.

My personal fave post-apocalyptic tale is A Canticle for Leibowitz. The story concerns a group of monks in a post-nuclear war America who try to keep knowledge of the pre-war world alive. Like the monks of medieval Europe they then act as a cultural catalyst for the new rising powers. It presents history as cyclical, with the new rising powers turning on each other while the monks try to keep the peace. If you like thoughtful science fiction this is an absolute must read.