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Sam J. Miller

Miller, Sam Joshua

February 7, 1979 (age 47)

Birth place: USA

82 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
September 2008 Essay Who Killed Thomas M. Disch? Strange Horizons, 22 September 2008
2013 |2 Short Fiction The Beasts We Want to Be Electric Velocipede, Winter 2013
March 2013 Short Fiction The Country of Dead Voices Icarus, Spring 2013
December 2013 |1 Short Fiction 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides Lightspeed, December 2013
December 2013 |9 Interview Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller Nightmare Magazine, December 2013
December 2013 6 Short Fiction Sabi, Wabi, Aware, Yugen Daily Science Fiction, December 2013
July 2014 Short Fiction Allosaurus Burgers Shimmer, July 2014
September 2014 |20 Interview Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller Lightspeed, September 2014
September 2014 60 Short Fiction Songs Like Freight Trains Interzone, September-October 2014
September 2014 |4 Short Fiction We Are the Cloud Lightspeed, September 2014
December 2014 Short Fiction Alloy Point Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #163
December 2014 Short Fiction Kenneth: A User's Manual Strange Horizons, 1 December 2014
December 2014 Interior Art Kenneth: A User's Manual Strange Horizons, 1 December 2014
January 2015 |1 Short Fiction The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2015
March 2015 |15.2 Review Alloy Point Apex Magazine, March 2015
June 2015 387 Essay Shiva and Octavia Lightspeed, June 2015
July 2015 1 Short Fiction When Your Child Strays from God Clarkesworld, July 2015
August 2015 |260 Interview Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller Lightspeed, August 2015
August 2015 |1 Short Fiction Ghosts of Home Lightspeed, August 2015
September 2015 53 Short Fiction Calved Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2015
September 2015 25 Review Kenneth: A User's Manual Mothership Zeta, Issue 0
November 2015 |2 Short Fiction To Die Dancing Apex Magazine, November 2015
January 2016 |1 Short Fiction Angel, Monster, Man Nightmare Magazine, January 2016
January 2016 |9 Interview Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller Nightmare Magazine, January 2016
June 2016 Short Fiction Nothing Is Truly Yours Pseudopod, #496
June 2016 13 Short Fiction Things with Beards Clarkesworld, June 2016
August 2016 33 Interview Spotlight on: Sam J. Miller, Writer Locus, #667 August 2016
December 2016 4 Essay Someone Else's Apocalypse Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2016
January 2017 9 Short Fiction Bodies Stacked Like Firewood Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2017
January 2017 |3 Interview Interview: Sam J. Miller Uncanny Podcast, 3 January 2017
March 2017 124 Essay Resistance 101: Basics of Community Organizing for SF/F Creators & Consumers, Volume One: Protest Tips and Tricks Uncanny Magazine, March-April 2017
May 2017 |11 Essay Resistance 101: Basics of Community Organizing for SF/F Creators & Consumers—Volume Two: Deepening Your Engagement Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2017
June 2017 73 Short Fiction The Ways Out Clarkesworld, June 2017
July 2017 26 Interview A Better Power Locus, #678 July 2017
July 2017 |11 Essay Resistance 101: Basics of Community Organizing for SF/F Creators and Consumers—Volume Three: My First Civil Disobedience Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2017
September 2017 |12 Essay Resistance 101: Basics of Community Organizing for SF/F Creators and Consumers— Volume Four: "Don't Let Him Catch You With Your Work Undone"—Activism for the Long Haul Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2017
October 2017 Short Fiction The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter Tor.com, October 18, 2017
November 2017 |25 Interview Interview: Sam J. Miller & Lara Elena Donnelly Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2017
November 2017 |3 Short Fiction Making Us Monsters Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2017
January 2018 |3.5 Review The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter Strange Horizons, 15 January 2018
March 2018 78 Review Blackfish City Interzone, March-April 2018
March 2018 79 Interview Blackfish City Interzone, March-April 2018
April 2018 |13.2 Review Blackfish City Lightspeed, April 2018
April 2018 14|14.1 Review Blackfish City Locus, #687 April 2018
May 2018 |15 Interview Interview: Sam J. Miller Lightspeed, May 2018
May 2018 101 Short Fiction My Base Pair Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2018
July 2018 45|45.1 Review Blackfish City Locus, #690 July 2018
July 2018 106 Short Fiction Last Gods Clarkesworld, July 2018
July 2018 |1 Short Fiction Red Lizard Brigade Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2018
July 2018 |2 Essay The Uncanny Dinosaurs—Introduction Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2018
September 2018 287 Interview Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller Lightspeed, September 2018
September 2018 196 Short Fiction Conspicuous Plumage Lightspeed, September 2018
February 2019 |3 Review Blackfish City Strange Horizons, 11 February 2019
June 2019 |13.3 Review Destroy All Monsters Lightspeed, June 2019
July 2019 Short Fiction Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart Clarkesworld, July 2019
November 2019 243 Short Fiction Shucked The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2019
September 2020 |9 Review The Blade Between Nightmare Magazine, September 2020
December 2020 |10 Short Fiction The Blade Between (excerpt) Lightspeed, December 2020
January 2021 |20 Interview Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine, January 2021) Nightmare Magazine, January 2021
January 2021 |6 Short Fiction Darkness Metastatic Nightmare Magazine, January 2021
January 2021 |3 Interview Interview: Sam J. Miller Uncanny Podcast, 5 January 2021
January 2021 Short Fiction Let All the Children Boogie Tor.com, January 6, 2021
January 2021 |1 Short Fiction Tyrannosaurus Hex Uncanny Magazine, January-February 2021
March 2021 |6 Short Fiction A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary Apex Magazine, March 2021
May 2021 |12.1 Review Let All the Children Boogie Apex Magazine, May 2021
June 2021 |2 Short Fiction The Nation of the Sick Lightspeed, June 2021
February 2022 |8 Interview Interview: Short Fictioneers Fantasy Magazine, February 2022
June 2022 Interview A Whole New Wonderful Nightmare: A Conversation with Sam J. Miller Clarkesworld, June 2022
July 2022 |6 Review Boys, Beasts, and Men Strange Horizons, 4 July 2022
November 2022 165 Short Fiction Iconophobe The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2022
February 2023 |16 Interview Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller Lightspeed, February 2023
February 2023 |1 Short Fiction His Guns Could Not Protect Him Lightspeed, February 2023
March 2023 45 Short Fiction Planetstuck Asimov's Science Fiction, March-April 2023
May 2023 |14 Essay Community Is a Superpower Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2023
May 2023 |14.1 Interior Art Community Is a Superpower Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2023
July 2023 |1 Short Fiction If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak The Dark, July 2023
November 2023 |14.1 Review If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak Apex Magazine, November 2023
April 2024 |8 Short Fiction Notes on Genocidal Interchronological Incursion 57.7.3 (f.k.a. "Friends") Baffling Magazine, April 2024
October 2025 |3 Interview An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal and Sam J. Miller Grimdark Magazine, October 2025
October 2025 |8 Interview Author Spotlight: Sam J. Miller (Nightmare Magazine, October 2025) Nightmare Magazine, October 2025
October 2025 |2 Short Fiction Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead Nightmare Magazine, October 2025
October 2025 |5 Review Red Star Hustle / Apprehension Grimdark Magazine, October 2025

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2014 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Beasts We Want to Be Nominee
2014 Shirley Jackson Award Best Short Fiction 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides Winner
2015 Hugo Award Best Novelette We Are the Cloud Nominee
2015 Nebula Award Novelette We Are the Cloud Nominee
2015 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction We Are the Cloud Finalist
2016 Asimov's Readers' Poll Best Short Story Calved Finalist
2016 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story When Your Child Strays from God Nominee
2016 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Calved Nominee
2016 Nebula Award Short Story When Your Child Strays from God Nominee
2016 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History Nominee
2017 Hugo Award Best Short Story Things with Beards Nominee
2017 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF The Art of Starving Nominee
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Things with Beards Nominee
2017 Nebula Award Short Story Things with Beards Nominee
2017 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette Angel, Monster, Man Nominee
2017 Shirley Jackson Award Best Short Fiction Things with Beards Nominee
2017 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Things with Beards Finalist
2018 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Andre Norton Award The Art of Starving Winner
2018 British Science Fiction Award Best Novel Blackfish City Nominee
2018 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel The Art of Starving Nominee
2018 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Bodies Stacked Like Firewood Nominee
2018 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Best Young Adult Book The Art of Starving Finalist
2019 Hugo Award Best Novel Blackfish City Nominee
2019 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Best Science Fiction Novel Blackfish City Winner
2019 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Blackfish City Finalist
2019 Nebula Award Novel Blackfish City Nominee
2020 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Roman étranger La cité de l'orque Nominee
2020 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Traduction La cité de l'orque Nominee
2020 Hugo Award Best Short Story Shucked Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Shucked Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Young Adult Book Destroy All Monsters Nominee
2021 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel The Blade Between Nominee
2022 Hugo Award Best Short Story Let All the Children Boogie Nominee
2022 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Let All the Children Boogie Nominee
2022 Nebula Award Short Story Let All the Children Boogie Nominee
2023 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak Nominee
2023 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Boys, Beasts & Men Winner
2023 World Fantasy Award Best Collection Boys, Beasts & Men Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Planetstuck Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak Nominee
2025 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Boys Who Run with the Boars Nominee
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