Sam J. Miller

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Sam J. Miller
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BornSam Joshua Miller [1]
(1979-02-07) February 7, 1979 (age 45) [2]
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Years active2008–present
Website
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Sam J. Miller (born February 7, 1979) is an American science fiction, fantasy and horror short fiction author. His stories have appeared in publications such as Clarkesworld , Asimov's Science Fiction , and Lightspeed , along with over 15 "year's best" story collections. He was finalist for multiple Nebula Awards along with the World Fantasy and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. He won the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for his short story "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides." His debut novel, The Art of Starving , was published in 2017 and his novel Blackfish City won the 2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

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Life

Sam J. Miller grew up in Hudson, New York, where his family ran a butcher shop. [3] He grew up Jewish [4] and lives with his husband in New York City, where he works as a community organizer for a homelessness organization. [3] [5]

Career

Miller studied writing as part at the 2012 Clarion Workshop under authors Holly Black, Cassandra Clare [5] and Ted Chiang. [6]

Miller began regularly publishing his short stories in 2013 with "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" in Nightmare Magazine . The story later won the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for best short fiction. [7] His other stories have been published in magazines such as Clarkesworld , Asimov's Science Fiction , Apex Magazine , and Lightspeed . His stories have been reprinted in over 15 "year's best" story collections and have been a finalist for multiple Nebula Awards along with the World Fantasy and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards.

Miller states that he writes "speculative fiction because that's how the world looks to me. Life is magic. Human society is horror. The world is science fiction." [5] While Miller deals with politics in his work as a community organizer, he says that "arguing a political point is a pretty good way to kill a story. But I do think it's possible to explore in fiction the issues that are important to us. That's the writing that excites me the most." [8]

Miller's prose has been called "evocative", [9] "disturbing" [10] and "grim stuff, but compelling". [11]

Miller's young adult novel The Art of Starving was released by HarperCollins in July 2017. [12] The novel is about a gay, bullied teenage boy who believes that extreme hunger awakens supernatural abilities and is rooted in Miller's own experience with an adolescent eating disorder. [13] It was a finalist for the World Science Fiction Society award for Best Young Adult novel and won the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy in 2018. [14]

His first novel for adults, Blackfish City, was released in April 2018 by Ecco Press. [15] [16] His second young adult novel, Destroy All Monsters, was published by HarperTeen in 2019. His second adult novel, The Blade Between, was published by Ecco Press in 2020.

Miller's first short-fiction collection, Boys, Beasts & Men, was published in May 2022 by Tachyon Publications. [17] It contains previously published and new stories with an introduction written by Amal El-Mohtar. [18] It won the 2023 Locus Award for Best Collection. [19]

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

Short fiction

Title [32] YearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
The Beasts We Want To Be2013 Electric Velocipede #27 (Winter 2013)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides 2013 Nightmare Magazine #15 (December 2013)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022) 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction
Allosaurus Burgers2014 Shimmer Magazine #20 (July 2014)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
We are the Cloud2014 Lightspeed #52 (August 2014)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)Novelette
The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History2015 Uncanny Magazine #2 (Jan/Feb 2015)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
When Your Child Strays from God2015 Clarkesworld Magazine #106 (July 2015)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
Ghosts of Home2015 Lightspeed #63 (August 2015)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
Calved2015 Asimov's Science Fiction (September 2015)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
Angel, Monster, Man2016 Nightmare Magazine #40 (January 2016)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)Novelette
Things With Beards2016 Clarkesworld Magazine #117 (June 2016)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter2017 Tor.com chapbook (October 2017) [33]
Conspicuous Plumage2018 Lightspeed #100 (September 2018)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart2019 Clarkesworld Magazine #154 (July 2019)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
Shucked2019 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction #746 (Nov/Dec 2019)Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
The Nation of the Sick2020Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends (Penguin House, 2020)
Let All the Children Boogie2021 Tor.com chapbook (January 2021)
Sun in an Empty Room2022Boys, Beasts & Men (June 2022)
Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy2022Solaris Satellites chapbook (July 2022), ISBN   978-1-78618-732-1 Novella

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  2. ↑ Miller, Sam J. [@sentencebender] (February 7, 2019). "I'm forty today, which is blowing my mind & warping the fabric of time and space..." (Tweet). Retrieved March 3, 2019– via Twitter.
  3. 1 2 "Shimmer #20 Interview: Sam J. Miller". Shimmer Magazine . No. 20. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ Wolfe, Gary K. (December 1, 2022). Episode 595: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Sam J. Miller. The Coode Street Podcast (podcast). Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 "Spotlight on: Sam J. Miller, Writer". Locus . August 12, 2016.
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  7. 1 2 "2013 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". Locus . July 13, 2014.
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  13. ↑ Miller, Sam J. (March 2, 2017). "#MHYALit: Better Is Not a Place". School Library Journal .
  14. ↑ "Here are the winners of the 2018 Nebula Awards". The Verge . Retrieved May 31, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Fiction Book Review: Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller. Ecco, $22.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-268482-0". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  16. ↑ Mason, Everdeen (April 5, 2018). "Review: Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month". The Washington Post . Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Boys, Beasts & Men". Tachyon Publications . Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  18. ↑ Boys, Beasts & Men – via NetGalley.
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  31. ↑ Winner, Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018.
  32. ↑ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
  33. ↑ Miller, Sam J. (October 18, 2017). "The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter". Tor.com . Retrieved January 4, 2019.
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