Walter M. Miller Jr.
Born
in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, The United States
January 23, 1923
Died
January 09, 1996
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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178 editions
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1959
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Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
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31 editions
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published
1997
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Dark Benediction
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published
1951
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Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead
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9 editions
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1985
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Classic Science Fiction by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (Unexpurgated Edition)
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published
2010
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Death of a Spaceman
22 editions
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published
1954
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Conditionally Human
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29 editions
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published
1952
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The Darfsteller and Other Stories
6 editions
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published
1982
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The View from the Stars
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14 editions
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1965
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Conditionally Human and Other Stories
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1982
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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are threatened, and the violence which follows will last until the structure of society as it now exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry. But that is how I see it.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
Polls
March 2020 New School Group Read
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, 1937, 214 pages
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937, 219 pages
White Fang by Jack London, 1906, 252 pages
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 1959, 160 pages
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., 1959, 334 pages
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati, 1940, 198 pages
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 1987, 224 pages
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