About the Author

Walter M. Miller, Jr. 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, followed after nearly forty years.

Terry Bisson is the award-winning author of numerous short stories as well as the novels Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet.

Reviews

"A remarkably affecting novel. . . Vividly imagined. . . Superb."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Pulses with life. . . Fascinating."
--The New York Times Book Review

"I can't remember the last time I so avidly looked forward to reading a new novel, and with such gratifying results."
--Science Fiction Chronicle