walter m miller

Walter Michael Miller Jr. born New Smyrna Beach, Florida: 23 January 1923 died Daytona beach, Florida: 9 January 1996 Walter M. Miller was an American writer of science fiction. During the 1960’s, Miller published about forty science fiction short stories. These have appeared in a number of...

Paperback novel, read it in the seventies, I think. OK: Civilzation is falling apart, humanity divided by alien infection that leaves the infected with gray skin. Main caracter driving through the apocalyptic landscape saves young lady from the mob, then torn between care and fear as his new...

I'm searching for a short story (from perhaps thirty or so years ago) that occurs in the room of a dying old man. The man has worked in a (lowly?) job but associated with the development (?) and launch of large rockets (to the moon perhaps). He has remained in the neighborhood where they are...

read in my youth, circa 1968 ... looking for any of title, author, and if possible, the text. Story 1- a study of an aging actor taking his last job, in a time when robots have taken over all the roles on the live/legitimate stage. He pretends to be a robot for love of the craft, and is...

Story centers around individual trying to locate why humans are mutating. Group finds meteorite crash site and individual that located meteor and cut open, releasing a virus which mutates humans. Meteorite has warnings printed on it, but we're ignored by Finder. Infected persons are driven to...

'A Canticle for Leibowitz' by Walter M. Miller, Jr hasn't been out of print since it was first published in 1960. It won the 1961 Hugo Award. Its post apocalyptic tale spanning thousands of years has been considered a work of genius by many critics. Has anyone read it?

Six centuries ago, the world was destroyed in the Atomic Flame Deluge, leaving humanity scattered and broken and the world infested by radiation and mutations. One of the few surviving points of continuity to the old world is religion, with the Christian Faith surviving in the form of isolated...

Anybody have any opinions on a Canticle for Leibowitz and its very recent sequels? I know Walter Miller killed himself about ten years ago, but I read that he wrote a sequel or two to a Canticle right around the time he died...