Sam J. Miller

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Sam J. Miller (2017)

Sam Joshua Miller (born February 7, 1979 ) is an American writer. He is best known as a writer of science fiction , fantasy, and horror .

Life

Miller grew up in Hudson , New York , where his father, like his grandfather, owned a butcher shop. Miller also learned the butcher's trade when he was 17 years old, but had to close the business. Miller developed an eating disorder as a teenager , much like the protagonist of his 2017 Andre Norton Award- winning Locus Award , William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, and Worldcon Special Convention Award- nominated novel The Art of Starving . Miller is now a vegetarian. Miller was at times a painter's model and a member of a punk band. In 2008, Haunting Your House was the first story to appear in the Awkward Robots anthology, The Red Volume . Further stories followed, then in 2017 the aforementioned first novel, in which an anorexic youth acquires supernatural abilities through excess hunger, and in the same year the short novel The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter with a similar subject . The 2018 novel Blackfish City about a floating city in the Arctic in a world changed by global warming , in which a mysterious woman riding an orca and accompanied by a polar bear appears in the city, was nominated for the Nebula Award and Locus Award . The novel follows on from the short story Calved , published in Asimov's Science Fiction in 2015 .

Miller attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop in 2012 and is a member of the Altered Fluid writing group . Miller lives with his husband in New York City .

Awards

On his website, Miller describes himself as the winner of the Nebula Awards . This refers to the Andre Norton Award presented by SFWA at the same time as the Nebula Awards, which he won in 2018. In 2019 he was nominated for the Nebula Award with the novel Blackfish City .

bibliography

Novels
  • The Art of Starving (2017)
  • The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter (2017)
  • Blackfish City (2018)
  • Destroy All Monsters (2019)
Short stories
  • Haunting Your House (2008)
  • The Beasts We Want to Be (2013)
  • 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides (2013)
  • Sabi, Wabi, Aware, Yugen (2013)
  • Allosaurus Burgers (2014)
  • We Are the Cloud (2014)
  • Songs Like Freight Trains (2014)
  • Kenneth: A User's Manual (2014)
  • Alloy Point (2014)
  • The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History (2015)
  • When Your Child Strays from God (2015)
  • Ghosts of Home (2015)
  • Calved (2015)
  • To Die Dancing (2015)
  • Angel, Monster, Man (2016)
  • Things with Beards (2016)
  • Nothing Is Truly Yours (2016)
  • Last Gods (2016)
  • Bodies Stacked Like Firewood (2017)
  • The Ways Out (2017)
  • Making Us Monsters (2017, with Lara Elena Donnelly )
  • My Base Pair (2018)
  • Red Lizard Brigade (2018)
  • Conspicuous Plumage (2018)
  • It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right (2019)
Non-fiction
  • Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (2011) with Aviva Briefel

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miller's Twitter post on February 7, 2019, accessed May 26, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Biographical information on Sam J. Miller website, accessed May 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Sam J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Sam Joshua (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1979