Walter Michael Miller, Jr. (January 23, 1923 - January 9, 1996) was an American Roman Catholic science fiction author who wrote the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz in 1959. Parts of the novel were first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Miller was born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. He served in the Army Air Forces in World War II as a radioman and tail gunner, flying 53 bombing missions over Italy. Among these was the bombing of the Benedictine Abbey at Monte Cassino, which became for him a traumatic experience. January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Catholicism. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A Canticle for Leibowitz A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... F&SF April 1971, special Poul Anderson issue. ... New Smyrna Beach is a city located in Volusia County, Florida. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,794 sq. ... The United States Army Air Forces, or USAAF, was a part of the U.S. military during World War II. The direct precursor to the U.S. Air Force, the USAAF formally existed between 1941 and 1947. ... Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... A tail gunner is a crewman on a military aircraft who functions as a gunner defending against attacks from the rear, or tail, of the plane. ... A Benedictine is a person who follows the Rule of St Benedict. ... The restored Abbey Monte Cassino is a rocky hill about eighty miles (130 km) south of Rome, Italy, a mile to the west of the town of Cassino (the Roman Cassinum having been on the hill) and about 1700 ft (520 m) altitude. ...

In his later years, Miller became pathologically reclusive, avoiding contact with most people including family members. Miller shot himself while working on a sequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz. That novel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, was finished by ghost writer Terry Bisson in 2000. A Canticle for Leibowitz A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr. ... Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman is the sequel to Walter M. Miller 1959 book A Canticle for Leibowitz. ... Terry Bisson (born February 12, 1942) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

A Canticle for Leibowitz was the only novel by Miller that was published during his lifetime. It won him the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and is considered one of the best post-apocalyptic novels. He also published about 40 science-fiction short stories, almost all of them within a five-year span from 1951 to 1955. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Winners of the Hugo Award for best novel. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... A collection of well-known science-fiction novels and magazines Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which at least part of the narrative depends on the impact of science, either real or imagined, to generate settings or events which have not yet occurred in reality (and may never... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A radio adapatation of A Canticle for Leibowitz was produced by WHA Radio and NPR in 1981. It is available on CD. WHA (970 AM) is one of the oldest radio stations in the United States, currently the flagship of Wisconsin Public Radios talk-based Ideas Network. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s...

Bibliography

Novels

• A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)
• Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (finished by Terry Bisson) (2000)

A Canticle for Leibowitz A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman is the sequel to Walter M. Miller 1959 book A Canticle for Leibowitz. ... Terry Bisson (born February 12, 1942) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Short stories

• Anybody Else Like Me? (1952)
• The Big Hunger (1952)
• Big Joe and the Nth Generation (1952)
• Bitter Victory (1952)
• Blood Bank (1952)
• Cold Awakening (1952)
• Command Performance (1952)
• Conditionally Human
• Crucifixus Etiam (1953)
• The Darfsteller (1955)
• Dark Benediction (1951)
• Death of a Spaceman (1954)
• Dumb Waiter (1952)
• The First Canticle (1955)
• Gravesong (1952)
• The Hoofer (1955)
• I, Dreamer (1953)
• I Made You (1954)
• Izzard and the Membrane (1951)
• Let My People Go (1952)
• The Lineman (1957)
• The Little Creeps (1951)
• Memento Homo (1954)
• No Moon for Me (1952)
• The Reluctant Traitor (1952)
• Secret of the Death Dome (1951)
• Six and Ten Are Johnny (1952)
• The Song of Marya (1957)
• The Song of Vorhu (1951)
• The Soul-Empty Ones (1951)
• The Sower Does Not Reap (1953)
• The Space Witch (1951)
• The Ties that Bind (1954)
• The View from the Stars
• The Will (1954)
• The Yokel (1953)
• Vengeance for Nikolai (1957)
• Way of a Rebel (1954)
• Wolf Pack (1953)
• You Triflin' Skunk! (1955)

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