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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 .
A later example is Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz, which begins in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war, with the Catholic Church seeking to preserve a remnant of old texts, as it did in the historical Early Middle Ages, and ends with a new civilization, built up over two thousand years, once again destroying itself in a ...
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.
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory is a book on moral philosophy by the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre.MacIntyre provides a bleak view of the state of modern moral discourse, regarding it as failing to be rational, and failing to admit to being irrational.
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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.