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Walter M. Miller Jr.

Pocket, 1980

Miller Delivers Thoughtful Sci-fi from the 1950's
As the title suggests, this book collects the best short stories and novellas of Walter Miller, Jr., the '50's science fiction writer best known for the brilliant novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Miller isn't overly strong on science, so none of these pieces come off as especially dated by recent discoveries, although it's interesting that so many of the technological innovations Miller foresaw ...

A Canticle for Leibowitz

231 reviews
Walter M. Miller Jr.

Eos, 2006

"Sic transit mundus"
Comparing the United States to the Roman Empire seems to be a fashionable thing to do lately. And the argument is certainly not without merit. As the only superpower left its natural to make judgments based on the worlds great empires and to ask if we are making the same mistakes that caused their downfalls. The real question, of course, is whether we can learn from history in order to avoid ...

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

46 reviews
Walter M. Jr. MILLER

Bantam Books, 1997

Secularism versus Parochialism
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman takes place during the second era described in A Canticle for Leibowitz. The world and its institutions are recovering from the horrific imapct of global nuclear war. Much as was seen as civilization came out of the Dark Ages, secular matters are now moving to the forefront. Whereas the first era saw an Americanized version of the Roman Catholic Church ...

A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.

Bantam Books, 1988

Brother Francis Gerard of Utahmihgt never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten Fast in the desert. Never before had Brother Francis actually seen a pilgrim with girded loins, but that this one was the bona fide article he was convinced as soon as he had recovered from the spine chilling effect of the pilgrim's advent on the far horizon, as a ...

A Canticle for Liebowitz
Jr. Walter M. Miller

J. B. Lippincott, 1959

Classic science fiction offering about a future world after a cataclysm, and the small band of monks devoted to the memory of St. Liebowitz, who tried to preserve books.