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• ↓ Adventures in Fantasy Literature
• ↓ Stop the Madness: Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz
• ↓ Richard Stark’s Parker, Part 8: The Mourner
• ↓ Feminist Icon in a Chain Mail Bikini: Red Sonja: Queen of Plagues by Gail Simone and Walter Geovanni
• ↓ Cimmerian September – Conan and The Lost Valley of Iskander
• ↓ Into the Weird: Weird Tales, May 1923 (Volume 1, Number 3) Part 2
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"A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Books reprint edition, August 1976). Cover by Lou Feck"

"In Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz, the humor is bleak, and the future worse. First published as a series of three stories in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1955-57, and then assembled into a fix-up novel in October of 1959, Canticle is a novel pinned like a helpless butterfly to the Cold War terror of nuclear annihilation – a notion that was then fresh and febrile, but has now faded into the background, as Miller predicted, to our sorrow, that it would. The book itself remains a damning, furious read, yet it comes across, mostly, as contained – peaceful, even – as bucolic as any given warhead, up until it’s armed."

"Miller’s dismay at humanity’s trajectory spills across every page, but this is no screed. He’s a story-teller, and a thoughtful, crafty one, and so he buries his polemics inside a cautious tri-partite structure, along with enough Latin to make this non-Catholic take to his on-line translator (a trick that Miller, in ‘59, could only dream of)."

"Volume 4 of Richard Stark’s Parker series of crime novels. It is also the first book in the series in which Parker goes on an entirely new heist, unrelated to the previous books. There is, however, a connection back to Bett Harrow, one of the supporting characters in the third book."

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Adventures in Fantasy Literature

Stop the Madness: Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz

Richard Stark’s Parker, Part 8: The Mourner

Feminist Icon in a Chain Mail Bikini: Red Sonja: Queen of Plagues by Gail Simone and Walter Geovanni

Cimmerian September – Conan and The Lost Valley of Iskander

Into the Weird: Weird Tales, May 1923 (Volume 1, Number 3) Part 2