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Beyond Armageddon

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

This must be a mistake... 4 out of 5 stars.
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Yes, the book is out of print, but when I ordered it, the page said that it was still available, and I received it in 2 days. Hmmm... There's good and bad to this collection of 21 stories of nuclear devastation. *Bad* - Walter M. Miller's lengthy, rambling, and ultimately pointless foreword and story introductions, and the abundance of typos (did anyone proofread this?). *Good* - The selection of works. Bradbury, Ellison, Clarke, Zelazny, Pangborn, and many others. Plus, it includes one of my personal favorites, "By the Waters of Babylon" by Steven Vincent Benet. The cover is intriguing, as well... looks like Stanislaw Fernandes?

Editorial Review:

In Beyond Armageddon, the distinguished science fiction writer Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923–96) and the famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg have together collected stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear war. The twenty-one stories in this collection, by masters such as Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, and Harlan Ellison, explore a variety of possibilities of “life after.” These richly imagined stories offer glimpses into a future no reader will soon forget. Miller’s incisive introduction and a thought-provoking and irreverent commentary are included. New to this Bison Books edition is a postscript to the introduction provided by Martin H. Greenberg.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller

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Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes

Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1952 with Part 1 of *The Demolished Man* (Volume 3, No. 4)

Alfred Bester, Walter M. Miller, Kris Neville, Alfred Coppel, Robert A. Heinlein

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AUTHOR LISTING IS WRONG for this title! 3 out of 5 stars.
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Please note: The authors listed on the Amazon page, for this edition of "Galaxy Science Fiction" magazine, is WRONG. I purchased a used copy of this pulp because the listing includes Robert Heinlein, but no Heinlein story appears in this magazine (including no stories under any of his pseudonyms).

Here is the CORRECT contents list:

Galaxy Science Fiction - January 1952

"The Demolished Man" (installment 1) by Alfred Bester
"The Girls from Earth" by Frank M. Robinson
"Hallucination Orbit" by J.T. M'Intosh
"Dead End" by Wallace Macfarlane
"The Furious Rose" by Dean Evans
"The Addicts" by William Morrison
and
"Gloom & Doom" (Editor's Page) by H.L. Gold

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CONTENTS: ~ ~~ ~ The Demolished Man (Part 1 of 3) [Alfred Bester]; The Girls from Earth [Frank M. Robinson]; Hallucination Orbit [J. T. McIntosh; The Addicts [William Morrison]; Dead End [Wallace Macfarlane]; The Furious Rose [Dean Evans]

Conditionally human

Walter M Miller

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Saint Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller

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This is the 30-years-in-coming sequel to Walter M. Miller's seminal work, A Canticle for Leibowitz. It chronicles the odyssey of Brother Blacktooth St. George, a fallen monk of the Leibowitz order who becomes secretary to the politically ambitious Cardinal Brownpony. Brownpony is involved in a complex scheme to break the rule of the Hannegan Empire, which dominates the 35th-century's post-apocalypse world. Even though Brownpony's plans will ultimately restore both the world and the declining Papacy to some form of order, he is not a religious man, although he is drawn to those who are. He sees something profoundly religious in Blacktooth, who on the surface seems to be a disgraced monk foundering in confusion because of his love for a woman, his semi-pagan visions of the Virgin Mary, and his nomadic heritage. Ultimately it seems that Brownpony's--and indeed humanity's--salvation may lie with Blacktooth, who will never quite realize how great is the gift he's been given.