Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923–1996)
Autor(a) de A Canticle for Leibowitz
About the Author
Miller's participation in the bombing of Casino, Italy, during World War II apparently had a lasting impact on the writer, for his only novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960), is rife with images of massive destruction caused by war. Miller began writing short stories in 1950 while recovering from mostrar mais an automobile accident, and most of his writing was done between 1950 and 1960. Often regarded as one of the best science fiction novels ever written, A Canticle for Leibowitz is a complex, beautifully written book that traces human history from a twentieth-century nuclear war forward to another war in a.d. 3781. It stands as one of the best examples of the fear that millions of people have of the power of nuclear weapons and the aftermath of nuclear holocaust. Richly symbolic and multilayered, the novel lends itself to critical commentary more than do most popular works of literature. Critic John B. Ower remarks that, perhaps because of his conversion to Catholicism, "Miller's religious belief is complex and comprehensive enough to contain within itself the dark misgivings, the ironies, and the ambiguities of our deeply disturbed century." (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Un cantico per Leibowitz - Benedizione oscura - Umani a condizione - Il mattatore (1988) 8 exemplares
Classic Science Fiction by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2010) 5 exemplares
I Made You [short fiction] 4 exemplares
MillemondiEstate 1995 3 exemplares
Izzard And The Membrane 2 exemplares
And the Light Is Risen {story} 2 exemplares
The magazine of fantasy and science fiction #13 2 exemplares
Um Cântico Para Leibowitz, 3 2 exemplares
Um Cântico Para Leibowitz - volume 2 1 exemplar
Um Cântico para Leibowitz, 1 1 exemplar
Nova SF* 11 - II serie 1 exemplar
C'era una volta un mondo 1 exemplar
Um Cântico Para Leibowitz - 3 1 exemplar
A Canticle for Lebowitz 1 exemplar
Fantastic, May 1968 (Vol. 17, No. 5) 1 exemplar
CONDICIONALMENTE HUMANO 1 exemplar
God Is Thus {story} — Autor — 1 exemplar
Um Cântico Para Leibowitz, Volume 2 1 exemplar
Check and Checkmate 1 exemplar
Um Cântico para Leibowitz 2 1 exemplar
Um Cântico Para Leibowitz - volume 1 1 exemplar
(A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ ) By Miller, Walter M. (Author) Paperback Published on (05, 2006) 1 exemplar
The Song Of Marya 1 exemplar
The Yokel 1 exemplar
The Reluctant Traitor 1 exemplar
Six And Ten Are Johnny 1 exemplar
Bitter Victory 1 exemplar
Let My People Go 1 exemplar
Um Cântico para Leibowitz 1 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30-Year Retrospective (1980) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s (1990) — Autor — 70 exemplares
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
The Wild Years 1946-1955 (Amazing Science Fiction Anthology Series) (1987) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1997, Vol. 93, No. 4 & 5 (1997) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Miller, Walter M., Jr.
- Outros nomes
- Miller, Walter Michael, Jr. (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1923-01-23
- Data de falecimento
- 1996-01-09
- Localização do túmulo
- Mosquito Lagoon, Florida, USA (cremated, ashes scattered)
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
- Causa da morte
- suicide
- Locais de residência
- New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA
- Educação
- University of Tennessee
University of Texas - Ocupações
- novelist
short story writer - Organizações
- Army Air Force (WWII)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Hugo Award for Best Novel (1961)
Hugo Award for Best Novella (1955) - Agente
- Don Congdon
Membros
Discussions
Second Round: A Canticle For Leibowitz (Miller) em Consensus Press (Novembro 2022)
Second Round: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr. em Consensus Press (Novembro 2022)
Leibowitz: what's the appeal? em Consensus Press (Outubro 2022)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Book 10) discussion em Group Reads - Sci-Fi (Fevereiro 2014)
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SF Masterworks (1)
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Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 68
- Also by
- 55
- Membros
- 13,629
- Popularidade
- #1,703
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 336
- ISBN
- 150
- Línguas
- 16
- Marcado como favorito
- 19
This book gives me the goosebumps still and because of my recent experiences in and around Byzantine churches, the (re)reading experience was amplified.
The setting is post-deluge - civilization had been utterly destroyed in a nuclear holocaust- and it is a sort of Christian order, the order of the St. Leibowitz that becomes the caretaker and perhaps more importantly the interpreter of past knowledge. The parallels between the Christian church after the destruction of the Roman Empire are striking, by the way.
“From the monster Fallout - deliver us.”
“From the spirit of fornication - deliver us.”
“From the Strontium, the Casium, the Cobalt- deliver us
It all kicks into gear when brother Francis finds among other items, a shopping list and a drawing of a circuit plan in an old fallout shelter which become objects of religious veneration.
It is then when taken out of context, we realize how easily the banal, the trivial is recognized as the ultimately profound, the lifeless becomes alive and ignorance becomes king. We, through the endless arrogance of contemporary societies are not aware that each and everyone of us, just as brother Francis and the whole church of St. Leibowitz, are forever dwelling inside universal concentric circles of dramatic irony. In that sense, ignorance permeates all there is and can’t be abdicated.
Walter Miller’s tale is a forever masterpiece, a classic of speculative fiction. Ah, what arrogance to suppose, to claim that anything can be forever-lasting .
Yet, Miller’s work ticks all the boxes. It is masterly eloquent, at times lusciously, then disturbingly ironic.
“What did the world weigh? It weighs but is not weighed. Sometimes it’s scales are crooked. It weighs life and labor in the balance against silver and gold. That will never balance. But fast and ruthless it keeps on that way. It spills a lot of life that way and sometimes a little gold. And blindfolded a king comes riding across the desert with a set of crooked scales, a pair of loaded dice and upon the flag is emblazoned vexileragis.”
The plot moves on like a steam engine, undisturbed and not caring for a reader’s preference. Driven by the stark reality of circumstance, it takes no prisoners. Simply wonderfully profound. Ah, I’m getting carried away.
A spiritu fornicationis, Domine, libera nos (in religious context fornication is often used as idolatry) Deliver me from the sin of idolatry.
Deo gratias.… (mais)