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Books : Science Fiction & Fantasy : Authors, A-Z : ( M ) : Miller, Walter M.
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This Halcyon Classics ebooks contains five science fiction stories by American writer Walter M. Miller, Jr. Miller (1923-1996) is best known for his post-apocalyptic novel A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ. Miller was also a widely-published author of short stories, winning a Hugo in 1955 for THE DARFSTELLER and another in 1961 for LEIBOWITZ.
This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
Contents:
Check and Checkmate
Death of a Spaceman
The Hoofer
The Ties that Bind
Way of a Rebel
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.
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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.(20080117)
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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]
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"Two Worlds of Walter M. Miller" collects two rare early science fiction stories from the pulp magazines. "Death of a Spaceman" originally appeared in the March, 1954 issue of AMAZING STORIES. "The Hoofer" originally appeared in the September, 1944 issue of FANTASTIC UNIVERSE.
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About the Story: In CONDITIONALLY HUMAN (February 1952), gene-alteration raises animal intelligence to near human levels, posing ethical and emotional questions for those involved in the animals’ care. Miller handles the story’s horrifying implications with prescient force and cool detachment. He had only been writing for publication for a little over a year when this story appeared GALAXY, and this, the first of his two contributions to the magazine, showed that he had already achieved full control of his talent. The ethical questions raised here (“Are they therefore human?” “Can we continue to treat them like property”?) are at the center of societal concern and debate sixty years later and are nowhere closer to being resolved. This version of the novelette is significantly shorter than the version which appears in the major 1980 collection THE BEST OF WALTER MILLER, JR. and it is reasonable to speculate that the version published in GALAXY was a reduction by its editor Horace Gold, who was well known to have engaged in that kind of imperious editing. There is no question that this more economical version fits better into GALAXY’s format and serves Gold’s views of editorial consistency. Miller’s own views of the presumed alteration are unknown but the fact that his COMMAND PERFORMANCE appeared in the magazine nine months later suggests that he found this editorial intervention acceptable. (Some of GALAXY’s authors did not. Theodore Sturgeon was notably discontented and Isaac Asimov left the magazine and science fiction writing in the late 50’s, probably for that reason.) About the Author: Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1922-1997) was the author of the Hugo winning novel, A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ (1960) generally regarded as one of the ten finest works to ever emerge from the genre. Like Joseph Heller, Miller was a WWII combat flier who was severely damaged by his horrific experiences; he became a journalist and published prolifically over the decade of the 1950’s, then went silent for his last forty years. (An uncompleted expensively contracted semi-sequel to A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ was finished off by Terry Bisson after Miller’s death and published unsuccessfully by Bantam Books.) Miller published approximately 40 magazine stories and the one novel in the 1950’s, some of the stories are regarded as monuments to the genre. His novella, THE DARFSTELLAR, published in ASTOUNDING’s January 1955 issue, won the Hugo as did CANTICLE half a decade later for best novel. Miller’s other contribution to GALAXY, CONDITIONALLY HUMAN, appeared nine months earlier than COMMAND PERFORMANCE and is regarded equally highly. Miller’s personal involvement with the science fiction community was embittering and disastrous; a well publicized affair with Judith Merril, then Frederik Pohl’s wife, wrecked her marriage and damaged his, and he abandoned any involvement with that community in the mid-fifties, living as a near recluse. Miller later committed suicide by gunshot. About The Galaxy Project: Horace Gold led GALAXY magazine from its first issue dated October 1950 to science fiction’s most admired, widely circulated and influential magazine throughout its initial decade. Its legendary importance came from publication of full length novels, novellas and novelettes. GALAXY published nearly every giant in the science fiction field. The Galaxy Project is a selection of the best of GALAXY with new forewords by some of today’s best science fiction writers. The initial selections in alphabetical order include work by Ray Bradbury, Frederic Brown, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Damon Knight, C. M. Kornbluth, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Frederik Pohl, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, William Tenn (Phillip Klass) and Kurt Vonnegut with new Forewords by Paul di Filippo, David Drake, John Lutz, Barry Malzberg and Robert Silverberg. The Galaxy Project is committed to publishing new work in the spirit GALAXY magazine and its founding editor Horace Gold.
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In a world in which the Cold War never ended, American president John Smith XVI dares to re-open contact with the East after forty years of Big Silence. A comedy of masks ensues, with unexpected results. From the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, this classic tale from the pulps originally appeared in 1953.
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CONTENTS: ~ ~~ ~ NOVELLA: The Martian Way [Isaac Asimov]; NOVELETTES: Command Performance [Walter M. Miller, Jr.]; Sugar Plum [R. Bretnor]; SHORT STORIES: The Altar at Midnight [C. M. Kornbluth]; The Misogynist [James E. Gunn]; Runaway [William Morrison]; A Thought for Tomorrow [Robert E. Gilbert]; Warrior Race [Robert Sheckley]; ARTICLES: The Next Voice [H. L. Gold]; Mars [Willy Ley]
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The Earth was green and quiet. Nature had survived Man, and Man had survived himself. Then, one day, the great silvery ships broke the tranquillity of the skies, bringing Man's twenty-thousand-year-lost inheritance back to Earth....
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