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Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

Author : Walter Miller

Publisher : Bantam

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 31,27 MB

Release : 2000-01-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0553380796

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Forty years after the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller returns to a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness, as one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter the destiny of humankind . . . . Isolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. George suffers a crisis of faith, torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, between the Holy Virgin and visions of the Wild Horse Woman of his people. At the brink of disgrace and expulsion from his order, the young monk is championed by a powerful cardinal who has plans for him. Blacktooth sets out on a journey across a landscape still scarred by the long-ago Flame Deluge, a land divided by nature, politics, and war. He will find horrors and wonders, sins of the flesh . . . and love. As he encounters and reencounters a beautiful but forbidden mutant named Ædrea, he begins to wonder: is a she-devil, the Holy Mother, or the Wild Horse Woman herself?





Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

Author : Walter M. Miller

Publisher : Orbit Books

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 34,91 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Church and state

ISBN : 9781857230130

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After 37 years, this is the sequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz. One thousand years after a nuclear holocaust, the Catholic Church is still in a power struggle with the temporal leaders of the USA. Cardinal Brownpony, descendant of the Nomads, hopes to keep the church from these men of violence.



Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Author : William H. Roberson

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 219 pages

File Size : 25,29 MB

Release : 2014-01-10

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0786487100

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Walter M. Miller, Jr., was one of the twentieth century's leading science fiction writers, a two-time Hugo Award winner and author of the classic novels A Canticle for Leibowitz and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman. This comprehensive literary guide provides more than 1,500 alphabetically arranged entries on Miller's life and body of work. It includes summaries of his two novels and all of his shorter works, character descriptions, explanations of the literary, cultural, historical, and religious allusions found in the works, as well as translations of all foreign words and phrases. This guide is meant to inform both scholarly and popular readings of Miller's work.



Beyond Armageddon

Author : Walter M. Miller

Publisher : U of Nebraska Press

Page : 404 pages

File Size : 13,64 MB

Release : 2006-05-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780803283152

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Twenty-one short stories explore the nature of life in the aftermath of a nuclear war, in an anthology that features works by such distinguished science fiction authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, and Harlan Ellison. Reprint.



Riddley Walker

Author : Russell Hoban

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 39,42 MB

Release : 2012-05-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1408832240

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‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.



TVA Baby

Author : Terry Bisson

Publisher : PM Press

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 33,66 MB

Release : 2011-04-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1604865474

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Beginning with a harrowing, high-speed ride through the Upper South (a TVA baby is a good ol’ boy with a Yankee father and a 12-gauge) and ending in a desperate search through New Orleans graveyards for Darwin’s doomsday machine (“Charlie’s Angels”), Terry Bisson’s newest collection of short stories covers all the territory between—from his droll faux-FAQ’s done for Britain’s Science magazine, to the most seductive of his Playboy fantasies (“Private Eye”), to an eerie dreamlike evocation of the 9/11 that might have been (“A Perfect Day”). On the way we meet up with Somali Pirates, a perfect-crime appliance (via PayPal) and a visitor from Atlantis who just wants a burger with fries, please. Readers who like cigarettes, lost continents, cars, lingerie, or the Future will be delighted. For those who don’t, there’s always Reality TV.



Jose Builds a Woman

Author : Jan Baross

Publisher : Ooligan Press

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 19,6 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1932010149

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"Jose builds a woman is a novel in the sensual tradition of magical realism. With lush prose and dry humor, Baross captures the fluid boundaries between life and death." "The multi-layered saga revolves around the impenetrable passions of Tortugina, the doyenne of bad love, Gabito, the beautiful and jealous octopus driver, and their son Jose, a boy obsessed with marrying a nun."--BOOK JACKET.



A Canticle for Leibowitz

Author : Walter M. Miller

Publisher : William Morrow

Page : 355 pages

File Size : 45,76 MB

Release : 2001-10-18

Category : Science fiction, American

ISBN : 9780575072206

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First there was the Fallout, the plagues and the madness. Then the bloodletting of the Simplification began, when the people - those few who were left - turned against the rulers, the teachers and the scientists who had turned the world into a barren desert, where great clouds of wrath had destroyed the forests and the fields. All knowledge was destroyed, all the learned killed - and only Leibowitz managed to save some of his books. And the monks of the Order of Leibowitz kept the sacred relics, copying, illuminating and interpreting the holy fragments, slowly fashioning a new Renaissance in a barbarous and fallen world.



Daughter of the Lion

Author : Jennifer Roberson

Publisher : D A W Books, Incorporated

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 12,93 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780886773243

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Fantasy tale about a race of magical warriors.