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It Takes a Thief: A Positronic Book
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781515452935
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Sep 16 2021
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A sharp-edged tale of ingenuity and moral ambiguity from one of the defining voices of mid-century science fiction.
In It Takes a Thief, Walter M. Miller Jr. explores a future shaped by suspicion, scarcity, and technological leverage. When institutions fail and trust erodes, survival depends not on brute force but on cunning-the ability to outthink systems built to constrain. Miller's narrative combines tension with intellectual precision, revealing how theft, in certain circumstances, becomes less a crime than a form of adaptation.
Written during the formative decades of American science fiction, the story reflects Miller's distinctive blend of irony, theological undercurrent, and social critique. Best known for A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller consistently examined the fragile boundary between civilization and collapse. Here, as elsewhere, the drama unfolds through moral complexity rather than spectacle, securing the tale's place within the Golden Age tradition of idea-driven speculative fiction.
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