New Releases by Walter M. Miller Jr

Dans le désert de l’Utah, parmi les vestiges d’une civilisation disparue, frère Francis de l’ordre albertien de Leibowitz a fait une miraculeuse découverte : d’inestimables reliques du martyr Isaac Leibowitz lui-même, qui jadis avait organisé la sauvegarde des dernières miettes du savoir balayé par le Grand Déluge de Flammes. C’est une lueur d’espoir en cet âge de ténèbres et d''ignorance, le signe tant attendu d’une nouvelle Renaissance. Mais l’humanité a-t-elle tiré les leçons d’un cataclysme qui l’a laissée exsangue, défigurée par le feu nucléaire? Saura-t-elle enfin se préserver des apprentis sorciers? Car l’Histoire, bientôt, menace de se répéter... Entre Le nom de la rose d’Umberto Eco et Docteur Folamour de Stanley Kubrick, une chronique rageuse et sarcastique de la folie humaine.

Walter M. Miller Jr is best remembered as the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, universally recognized as one of the greatest novels of modern SF. But as well as writing that deeply felt and eloquent book, he produced many shorter works of fiction of stunning originality and power. His profound interest in religion and his innate literary gifts combined perfectly in the production of such works as The Darfstellar, for which he won a Hugo in 1955, Conditionally Human, I, Dreamer and The Big Hunger, all of which are included in this brilliant and essential collection.

John Smith XVI, new President of the Western Federation of Autonomous States, had made a number of campaign promises that nobody really expected him to fulfill, for after all, the campaign and the election were only ceremonies, and the President -- who had no real name of his own -- had been trained for the executive post since birth.

The winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel, Miller''s bestselling work is a true landmark of 20th-century literature--a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future.