Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman by Walter Miller

About Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

Forty years after the classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller returns to a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness, as one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure and discovery that promises to alter the destiny of humankind . . . .

Isolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. George suffers a crisis of faith, torn between his vows and his Nomad upbringing, between the Holy Virgin and visions of the Wild Horse Woman of his people. At the brink of disgrace and expulsion from his order, the young monk is championed by a powerful cardinal who has plans for him. Blacktooth sets out on a journey across a landscape still scarred by the long-ago Flame Deluge, a land divided by nature, politics, and war. He will find horrors and wonders, sins of the flesh . . . and love. As he encounters and reencounters a beautiful but forbidden mutant named Ædrea, he begins to wonder: is a she-devil, the Holy Mother, or the Wild Horse Woman herself?

Praise

"A remarkably affecting novel. . . Vividly imagined. . . Superb."
—The Washington Post Book World

"Pulses with life. . . Fascinating."
—The New York Times Book Review

"I can’t remember the last time I so avidly looked forward to reading a new novel, and with such gratifying results."
—Science Fiction Chronicle

About Walter Miller

Walter M. Miller, Jr. grew up in the American South and enlisted in the Army Air Corps a month after Pearl Harbor. He spent most of World War II as a radio operator and tail gunner, participating in more than… More about Walter Miller