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Walter M. Miller

Lifespan
1923 – 1996
Nationality
American
Active
1952 – 1955
Works held
7

Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923–1996) wrote a good deal of fine 1950s magazine SF, but his monument is A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960), a profound, darkly funny novel of monks preserving knowledge across the centuries after a nuclear war, which won the Hugo and stands among the finest novels the genre has produced. A tail-gunner in WWII who bombed the monastery at Monte Cassino, Miller wrote from a place of real moral weight.

The works

  1. 1955
    Cover of The Hoofer The Hoofer
  2. 1954
    Cover of Death of a Spaceman Death of a Spaceman Cover of The Ties That Bind The Ties That Bind Cover of Way of a Rebel Way of a Rebel
  3. 1953
    Cover of Check and Checkmate Check and Checkmate
  4. 1952
    Cover of Conditionally Human Conditionally Human Cover of It Takes a Thief It Takes a Thief

Wrote across

1950s

Recurring themes

Space OperaSocial SFColonizationMilitary SFFirst ContactArtificial IntelligencePost-Apocalyptic

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonFox B. HoldenJim HarmonRandall GarrettRaymond Z. GallunRobert Emmett McDowellRobert SheckleyRobert Silverberg

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Stephen MarloweRandall GarrettRobert SilverbergBryce WaltonAlan Edward NourseH. Beam PiperMurray LeinsterWinston K. MarksCharles L. FontenayPoul Anderson

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