author
Walter M. Miller
1923–1996
Best known for the haunting post-apocalyptic classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, he brought wartime experience and spiritual questions into science fiction in a way that still feels powerful. His work is remembered for blending ruined futures, moral weight, and sharp human feeling.
7 Audiobooks
Conditionally Human
by Walter M. Miller
Check and Checkmate
by Walter M. Miller
Way of a Rebel
by Walter M. Miller
It Takes a Thief
by Walter M. Miller
The Ties That Bind
by Walter M. Miller
Death of a Spaceman
by Walter M. Miller
The Hoofer
by Walter M. Miller
About the author
Walter M. Miller Jr. was an American science fiction writer born in Florida in 1923. He served in World War II and later became known for fiction that wrestled with destruction, memory, faith, and the long survival of knowledge.
His reputation rests above all on A Canticle for Leibowitz, first assembled from shorter works and published as a novel in 1959; it won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1961. Although it was the only novel published during his lifetime, it became one of the landmark books of 20th-century science fiction.
Before that success, he published a strong run of short stories in genre magazines during the 1950s. Readers often return to his work for its rare mix of speculative imagination, religious and philosophical depth, and the sense that history can be both tragic and enduring.