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Sam J. Miller

Autor de Blackfish City

21+ Obras 1,270 Miembros 55 Reseñas

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Sam J. Miller is an American author, based in New York. He writes novels and short stories in science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a butcher, guitarist in a punk rock band, and a painter's model. He was co-editor of the anthology, Horror After 9/11. mostrar más His other work includes Blackfish City, and The Art of Starving, which won the 2017 Nebula Awards, Andre Norton Award for young adult science-fiction and fantasy. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 2 (2017) — Contribuidor — 103 copias
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1 (2016) — Contribuidor — 100 copias
Drowned Worlds (2016) — Contribuidor — 85 copias
Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021 Edition (2022) — Contribuidor — 80 copias
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 (2022) — Contribuidor — 76 copias
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 Edition (2017) — Contribuidor — 65 copias
Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2016) — Contribuidor — 63 copias
Uncanny Magazine Issue 2: January/February 2015 (2015) — Contribuidor — 54 copias
The Best of Uncanny (2019) — Contribuidor — 54 copias
Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (2018) — Contribuidor — 48 copias
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance (2022) — Contribuidor — 46 copias
Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy (2021) — Contribuidor — 44 copias
The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered (2010) — Contribuidor — 41 copias
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 39 copias
Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 37 copias
Recognize Fascism: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology (2020) — Contribuidor — 33 copias
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Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 4 (2017) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
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Sex by the Book: Gay Men's Tales of Lit and Lust (2007) — Contribuidor — 23 copias
Uncanny Magazine Issue 23: July/August 2018 (2018) — Contribuidor — 22 copias
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2020 Edition (2020) — Contribuidor — 21 copias
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The Best of Electric Velocipede (2014) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
Uncanny Magazine Issue 14: January/February 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2021 (2022) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 100 • September 2018 (2018) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 96 • May 2018 (2018) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #163 (2014) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 111 • August 2019 (2019) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume Two (2023) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Nightmare Magazine, December 2013 (2013) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Apex Magazine 78 (November 2015) (2015) — Autor — 3 copias
Shimmer 2014: The Collected Stories (2016) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 123 (August 2020) (2020) — Contribuidor — 2 copias

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3.5 *
Not a huge fan of supernatural thrillers.
Pacy though, and who doesn’t love the idea of a billionaire on a Catherine wheel ;)
 
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P1g5purt | 6 reseñas más. | Mar 26, 2024 |
I received an early copy of this book from Net Galley, this has not influenced my review.

This book was the best possible version of a short story collection and really shows off the strengths of the genre. If a six star option existed, I would give this book all of them without a moment’s hesitation.
Like a really great box of chocolates, each story in this collection was fantastic, distinct, and memorable, no coconut clusters or teeth-shattering slabs of caramel in here! (Sorry if those are your favorites). I could have easily read whole books based on each individual tale.

The stories were enormously diverse and each affected me a different way, but each left their mark and each was a joy to read. This author blends horror, fantasy, mystery, and magic seemingly effortlessly, the way professional athletes or dancers are able to do incredible things that just seem like showing off until you remember the years of work that went into reaching that level.
The author’s range is astounding. From a story where King Kong really walked the earth and died at the foot of the Empire State Building to a retelling of the night of the Stonewall Riot, where oppressed, queer, New Yorkers discover a potent and deadly form of group pyrokenesis, I found myself completely immersed in each new tale from the beginning.

This author is one I’ve heard about for a while but have never read until now. After this truly stunning book I plan on reading his other works and keeping a careful eye on his upcoming projects.
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Autolycus21 | 2 reseñas más. | Oct 10, 2023 |
"Boys, Beasts & Men" caught me by surprise, turning out to be a set of more literary and satisfying stories than I'd expected from the descriptions. While there are homosexual characters and themes in most of the stories and it's certainly fair to call this collection 'Queer Fiction,' it would be totally facile and reductionist to leave it at that; Miller has a very aware and painterly voice, crafting captivating tales of alienation, loneliness, and hidden natures, of being the voice of That Which Is Other, those Outside-Looking-In. Really, his stories -- while more masculine in tone and gay at heart -- hit like classic Joni Mitchell songs in terms of the images and impulses voiced. In the acknowledgements, Miller cites Ray Bradbury as a major, early influence on his writing and that is evident; the light and dark creatures of human nature breathe within everyone and the stories are the fora in which they play out their parts, with swaths of the fantastical woven through the mundane and everyday. He also threads a unifying, interstitial story through "B,B&M" very reminiscent of that around Bradbury's own certain man of many tattoos.....

All of these stories affected me on an emotional level, if not all the same flavor of emotion, but that alone alerts me that this was not just an ordinary read. "Conspicuous Plumage" and "Ghosts of Home" had the strongest immediate impact, partly wistful and partly grief, but the two-sided coin that is the pair "Calved" and "When Your Child Strays From God" lit up my empathy boards; as a dad, it's tough to read those two. I not only recommend this collection to anyone with an interest in urban-SFF, light horror, or human psychology itself, but think that any of these stories would work brilliantly as discussion fodder for bringing xenophobes around to empathetic awareness of others.

And Miller is right about one other thing: you can make just about any story better by adding a dinosaur.
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MLShaw | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 13, 2023 |
2.5 stars. Good ideas mixed up with too much preaching mixed up by a POV switch every 2 pages (literally, the book jumps POV like 125 or 150 or maybe more times, sometimes after only a page) mixed up with not-at-all-scifi-actually-just-techno-fantasy. It's like... the Johnny Mnemonic (movie) crossed with His Dark Materials crossed with... some environmental fiction.

So potentially good, but this book failed for me in many ways. The city is interesting, but the world behind it is annoyingly unconvincing in all the wrong spots. I suspect the author doesn't have a lot of familiarity with science, tech, or e.g. real climate model predictions. These characters all come together... magically. In all seriousness, it might have worked better if they just had a "destiny" to fulfill, a prophecy was foretold, etc.… (más)
 
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dcunning11235 | 25 reseñas más. | Aug 12, 2023 |

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