A Canticle for Leibowitz

Name: A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Author: Walter M. Miller, Jr

£460

Illustrated by Elliot Lang

Introduced By Michael Dirda

A major work of post-apocalyptic science fiction, Walter M. Miller Jr’s best-selling A Canticle for Leibowitz receives its first fully illustrated edition courtesy of Folio, introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda and with evocative, medieval artwork by Elliot Lang. Limited to 500 copies.

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AuthorWalter M. Miller, Jr

Illustrated byElliot Lang

Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1923-1996) was an American science fiction writer from Florida. He served in the air force during the Second World War and flew in dozens of bombing missions against Italian targets. The trauma of this experience marked him deeply for the rest of his life. In the 1950s Miller published a number of science fiction stories, one of which won the Hugo Award, and three of his novella-length stories became the basis for A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959; Folio 2024). After the success of the novel – which also won a Hugo – Miller continued to write but never completed another full-length book during his lifetime. He died by suicide, at his home in Daytona Beach, shortly after the death of his wife. The sequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz – Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (1997) - was completed by Terry Bisson with Miller's approval – and published posthumously.

Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist, a former books columnist for the Washington Post, and the author of five collections of essays: Readings (2000), Bound to Please (2005), Book by Book (2006), Classics for Pleasure (2007) and Browsings (2015). He has also written the memoir An Open Book (2003) and On Conan Doyle (2012), which received an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His introductions for The Folio Society include The Great Gatsby (2013), Dune (2016), East of Eden (2017), Atlas Shrugged (2018), Cat's Cradle (2022), Weird Tales (2024), A Canticle for Leibowitz (2024) and Moby-Dick (2026).

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