![]() ![]() ![]() Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman was a novel he almost completed before committing suicide, was finished by Terry Bisson, and published after his death.Īccording to ISFDB, Walter M. ISFDB only lists one story in the novel section, “The Reluctant Traitor,” probably a novella, that appeared in the January 1952 issue of Amazing Stories. Miller’s most famous book, A Canticle for Leibowitz was a fix-up novel based on three previously published stories. However, it appears Miller never finished a fully completed published novel. I wish “Command Performance”/”Anybody Else Like Me?” was a novel instead of a short story, and Miller had worked out Lisa’s and Kenneth’s relationship at length. Much like that old saying about walking in someone else’s shoes. He has his characters, Lisa Waverly and Kenneth Grearly sharing thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, fantasies, and inputs from all five senses. Most writers picture telepathy as people talking to each other without speaking aloud. Miller had an interesting take on how telepathy might work, and like many science fiction stories from the 1950s, it’s very psychological. ![]() ![]() did in “Command Performance,” and neither would you, but I was quite impressed with how he envisioned such an encounter playing out. How would you plot such a story? I wouldn’t have done it like Walter M. Imagine you’re a science fiction writer and want to tell a story about a person who feels they are different from other people and one day they discover they’re a telepath when they finally meet someone like themselves. ![]()
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