Walter M. Miller Jr.






Walter M. Miller Jr.

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born
January 23, 1923

died
January 09, 1996

gender
male

place of birth
New Smyrna Beach, Florida, The United States

genre
Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy


about this author

Walter M. Miller Jr. was born to Ruth and Walter Miller. He grew up in the American South and studied in University of Tennessee for two years. During World War II, he took part in the Army Air Force as a radioman and tail gunner aboard B-25 bombers and participated in the bombing destruction of Italy and the Balkans, including the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino, which he later regarded as a traumatic experience. He married to Anna Louise Becker and had four children. After studying in University of Texas, although not earning his degree, he was an engineer, working for the rail lines and lived on Social Security. He moved to Florida with his family in 1950s and then spent his lifetime avoiding his family members and visitors.

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A Canticle for Leibowitz A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
avg rating 3.94 — 3,006 ratings — published 1959
44 editions
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Saint Leibowitz and the Wild H... Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
avg rating 2.94 — 89 ratings — published 1996
12 editions
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Beyond Armageddon Beyond Armageddon
by Walter M. Miller Jr., Martin H. Greenberg
avg rating 3.59 — 22 ratings — published 1985
2 editions
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Dark Benediction Dark Benediction
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 1980
3 editions
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Conditionally Human and Other... Conditionally Human and Other Stories
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1963
3 editions
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Darfstellar and Other Stories Darfstellar and Other Stories
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1982
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View from the Stars View from the Stars
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1973
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DEATH OF A SPACEMAN DEATH OF A SPACEMAN
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2009
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Sc... The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1957; *The Last Canticle* By Walter M. Miller, Jr. (Vol. 12, No. 2)
by Walter M. Miller Jr., Poul Anderson, Manly Wade Wellman
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1957
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Science Fiction Stories of Wal... Science Fiction Stories of Walter M. Miller
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"That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins."
Walter M. Miller Jr. (A Canticle for Leibowitz)
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"I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity."
Walter M. Miller Jr. (A Canticle for Leibowitz)
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"To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security."
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