author
Walter M. Miller
1923–1996
Best known for the haunting classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, this American science fiction writer brought unusual moral and spiritual depth to post-apocalyptic fiction. His work still stands out for the way it blends the scars of war, questions of faith, and the long memory of civilization.
7 Audiobooks
Conditionally Human
by Walter M. Miller
Death of a Spaceman
by Walter M. Miller
It Takes a Thief
by Walter M. Miller
Way of a Rebel
by Walter M. Miller
Check and Checkmate
by Walter M. Miller
The Ties That Bind
by Walter M. Miller
The Hoofer
by Walter M. Miller
About the author
Born in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, in 1923, Walter M. Miller Jr. served in World War II before becoming a writer. He later converted to Catholicism, and both his wartime experience and religious beliefs shaped the serious, reflective tone of his fiction.
He published a number of short stories in the 1950s, but he is most widely remembered for A Canticle for Leibowitz, first assembled from earlier stories and published as a novel in 1960. The book became a landmark of science fiction, admired for its vision of monks preserving knowledge after nuclear catastrophe and for its thoughtful tension between science, history, and belief.
Miller published only one novel during his lifetime, which has helped give his reputation a distinctive, almost singular focus. Even so, that one major work secured his place as one of the most memorable voices in twentieth-century science fiction, and readers continue to return to it for both its imagination and its emotional weight.