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A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself.
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.
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.
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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 ...
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. The Captive's War series by James S. A. Corey. namely, The Mercy of Gods and Livesuit; Carnival by Elizabeth Bear; A Case of Conscience by James Blish; Cat Country by Lao She; Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (the sequel is The Naked Sun) Celestial Matters by ...