Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

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Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (1997) is a science fiction novel and a continuity insert 'sequel' to Walter M. Miller 1959 book A Canticle for Leibowitz. Miller did not complete the 'sequel' before his death in 1996, and it was completed by Terry Bisson.

The novel comes chronologically some eighty years after the events of the second vignette within Miller's original novel, "Fiat Lux" (c3254 CE). New Rome has been captured and destroyed by the power of the Texark state, and the Papacy is in exile. Moreover, the pontiff in question is female. Led by a wordly deacon, a group of clerics are attempting to unite the remaining independent states in North America, including the Nomad Hordes, to break Texark's power and restore the independence of the Church.

As the third vignette within the earlier novel, "Fiat Voluntas Tua" is set over six centuries later (3781 CE), and the Abbey of Saint Leibowitz is now situated within a consolidated (albeit constitutional) Empire of Texarkana, this novel should perhaps be seen as an insert within the narrative sequence of the earlier novel, rather than as a sequel per se.