Walter M. Miller, Jr., (1923-1996) grew up in the American South and enlisted in the Army Air Corps a month after Pearl Harbor. He spent most of World War II as a radio operator and tail gunner, participating in more than fifty-five combat sorties, among them the controversial destruction of the Benedictine abbey at Monte Cassino, the oldest monastery in the Western world. Fifteen years later he wrote A Canticle for Leibowitz. The sequel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, published posthumously and completed by a different author, followed nearly forty years lat
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1950s Science Fiction 8 - 29 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from the 1950s - Never Trust a Thief! by Robert Silverberg - Moon of Memory by Bryce Walton - Metamorphosis by Mike Curry - Inheritance by Edward W. Ludwig - Short Snorter by Charle... SEE MORE