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In his later years, Miller became pathologically reclusive, avoiding contact with most people including family members. Miller shot himself while working on a sequel to '' A Canticle For Leibowitz ''. That novel, '' Saint Leibowitz And The Wild Horse Woman '', was finished by ghost writer Terry Bisson in 2000 .

''A Canticle for Leibowitz'' was the only novel by Miller that was published during his lifetime. It won him the 1961 Hugo Award For Best Novel , and is considered one of the best Post-apocalyptic novels. He also published about 40 Science-fiction short stories, almost all of them within a five-year span from 1951 to 1955 .

A Radio adapatation of ''A Canticle for Leibowitz'' was produced by WHA Radio and NPR in 1981. It is available on CD .


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Novels



Short stories

  • ''Anybody Else Like Me?'' ( 1952 )

  • ''The Big Hunger'' ( 1952 )

  • ''Big Joe and the Nth Generation'' ( 1952 )

  • ''Bitter Victory'' ( 1952 )

  • ''Blood Bank'' ( 1952 )

  • ''Cold Awakening'' ( 1952 )

  • ''Command Performance'' ( 1952 )

  • ''Conditionally Human''

  • ''Crucifixus Etiam'' ( 1953 )

  • ''The Darfsteller'' ( 1955 )

  • ''Dark Benediction'' ( 1951 )

  • ''Death of a Spaceman'' ( 1954 )

  • ''Dumb Waiter'' ( 1952 )

  • ''The First Canticle'' ( 1955 )

  • ''Gravesong'' ( 1952 )

  • ''The Hoofer'' ( 1955 )

  • ''I, Dreamer'' ( 1953 )

  • ''I Made You'' ( 1954 )

  • ''Izzard and the Membrane'' ( 1951 )

  • ''Let My People Go'' ( 1952 )

  • ''The Lineman'' ( 1957 )

  • ''The Little Creeps'' ( 1951 )

  • ''Memento Homo'' ( 1954 )

  • ''No Moon for Me'' ( 1952 )

  • ''The Reluctant Traitor'' ( 1952 )

  • ''Secret of the Death Dome'' ( 1951 )

  • ''Six and Ten Are Johnny'' ( 1952 )

  • ''The Song of Marya'' ( 1957 )

  • ''The Song of Vorhu'' ( 1951 )

  • ''The Soul-Empty Ones'' ( 1951 )

  • ''The Sower Does Not Reap'' ( 1953 )

  • ''The Space Witch'' ( 1951 )

  • ''The Ties that Bind'' ( 1954 )

  • ''The View from the Stars''

  • ''The Will'' ( 1954 )

  • ''The Yokel'' ( 1953 )

  • ''Vengeance for Nikolai'' ( 1957 )

  • ''Way of a Rebel'' ( 1954 )

  • ''Wolf Pack'' ( 1953 )

  • ''You Triflin' Skunk!'' ( 1955 )



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