Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr., The

This is a collection of shorter works (up to a novella in length) of Walter M. Miller Jr., who is most known for his 1961 Hugo-winning novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, which was his last published work during his lifetime. His publishing career was quite brief, from 1951 to 1957, but he created some......more

I believe each of these stories were written in the 50’s, and because of that there is a dated aspect to the technology. Luckily, true human drama and the exploration of fears and motivations will not become dated until we are all perfect and exist with no existential angst. Even the lesser tales we......more

This is the "best of" Walter Miller Jr's short fiction, barring the original versions of the stories later incorporated into "A Canticle for Leibowitz." Of course, since Miller wrote all of these stories for pulp magazines in the 50s, it's a very mixed bag. So, there's the brilliant stuff, which is......more

What I liked about this collection of short tales is the fact that each one had a different feel and occupied a different time or universe, This at times led to maybe a more disjointed or slightly heavier read than in collections that occupy the same area of narrative but each was worth a read. Some......more

A good collection. I liked most of them, and none were outright duds. The following stories were my favorites: "Anybody Else Like Me?" A woman discovers she has an amazing telepathic ability, but she is afraid of it and ends up killing the only other human with the same ability. Before, she always fe......more