Walter M. Miller

Walter M. Miller
Walter M. Miller Jr. was an American science fiction writer best known for his post-apocalyptic novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (1960), which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book explores themes of religion, knowledge preservation, and the cyclical nature of human history after a nuclear war. Miller was a reclusive figure, with "A Canticle for Leibowitz" being his only major work during his lifetime, though it became a classic of the genre. He later wrote a sequel, "Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman," which was published posthumously in 1997.

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The manner in which a man has lived is often the key to the way he will die. Take old man Donegal, for example. Most of his adult life was spent in digging a hole through space to learn what was on the other side. Would he go out the same way? Old Donegal was dying. They had all known it was coming, and they watched it comeā€”his haggard wife, his daughter, and now his grandson, home on emergency leave... more...

They all knew he was a spacer because of the white goggle marks on his sun-scorched face, and so they tolerated him and helped him. They even made allowances for him when he staggered and fell in the aisle of the bus while pursuing the harassed little housewife from seat to seat and cajoling her to sit and talk with him. Having fallen, he decided to sleep in the aisle. Two men helped him to the back of... more...

Lieutenant Laskell surfaced his one-man submarine fifty miles off the Florida coast where he had been patrolling in search of enemy subs. Darkness had fallen. He tuned his short wave set to the Miami station just in time to hear the eight o'clock news. The grim announcement that he had expected was quick to come: "In accordance with the provisions of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, Congress today... more...