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A Canticle for Leibowitz was an early example of a genre story becoming a mainstream best-seller after large publishers entered the science-fiction market. [27] In 1961 it was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel by The World Science Fiction Convention. [1] In the years since, praise for the work has been consistently high.
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (1997) is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr. It is a follow-up to Miller's 1959 book A Canticle for Leibowitz . Miller wrote the majority of the novel before his death in 1996; the rest was completed based on Miller's notes and outlines by Terry Bisson .
Miller was born on January 23, 1923, in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.Educated at the University of Tennessee and the University of Texas, he worked as an engineer.During World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces as a radioman and tail gunner, flying more than fifty bombing missions over Italy.
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Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
A Jewish Wanderer appears in A Canticle for Leibowitz, a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr. first published in 1960; some children are heard saying of the old man, "What Jesus raises up STAYS raised up", and introduces himself in Hebrew as Lazarus, implying that he is Lazarus of Bethany, whom Christ raised from the ...
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This will expand as more content is added to the Body (reference to Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman should be added for example). Publication history — should be added since this is significant. Started 12/2/07. Plot introduction & summary — as mentioned above, this should be drastically condensed. Done 12/1/2007.