'Exceptional quality ... First-class, wholly adult writing and really convincing' Punch '[Walter M. Miller] showed ... that science fiction can encompass and illuminate all human activities ... Fine, bold SF ' Daily Herald 'Prodigiously imaginative' Chicago Tribune An important collection that all SF fans should have
Walter M. Miller Jr (1923-1996) grew up in the American south. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps a month after Pearl Harbor and spent most of the Second World War as a radio operator and gunner, participating in fifty-five combat sorties over Italy and the Balkans, including the assault on Monte Cassino. After the war, he studied engineering, before turning to writing. He won a Hugo Award for A Canticle for Leibowitz. His only other novel, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horsewoman, was published posthumously.
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