And Miles To Go Before I Sleep begins at the end of a remarkable journey. After twenty years traveling among the stars, Robert Murdock is finally returning to Earth and the small Kansas town he once called home. His elderly parents are waiting for the reunion they have dreamed about for decades. There is only one problem: Murdock knows he will not survive long enough to see them.
Faced with an incurable alien disease and only minutes remaining, Murdock refuses to let death break the promise he made to his parents. His solution transforms a story of space travel into something far more personal—a tale about family, identity, sacrifice, and whether a comforting illusion can sometimes be an act of love. William F. Nolan builds the story around a simple homecoming, then adds one unforgettable complication after another.
William F. Nolan (1928–2021) was an American author whose career stretched across science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, biography, film, and television. He is best remembered as the co-author, with George Clayton Johnson, of the 1967 novel Logan’s Run, later adapted into the well-known 1976 film.
Nolan was also a prolific short-story writer and part of a remarkable circle of California writers that included Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, and George Clayton Johnson. Over a career spanning more than six decades, he produced novels, collections, screenplays, nonfiction, and numerous short stories. And Miles To Go Before I Sleep demonstrates one of his greatest strengths: taking a futuristic idea and making the human emotions behind it matter most.
