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Sam J. Miller

サム・ジェイ・ミラー

Samu J. Mirā

別名: Sam Joshua Miller

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1979-02-07 (Hudson, New York)
国籍
American
言語
English
宗教
Judaism
居住地歴
Hudson, New York (childhood) → New York City (current)

経歴

職業
Writer, Community organizer
活動期間
2008年〜2024年
ノミネート
2014 Nebula Award Best Novelette finalist (We Are the Cloud), 2015 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist (We Are the Cloud), 2015 Nebula Award Best Short Story finalist (When Your Child Strays from God), 2016 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction finalist (The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History)

学歴

Clarion Workshop
Writing
期間: 2012
卒業年: 2012
国: United States
Studied writing under Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, and Ted Chiang

受賞歴

Shirley Jackson Award
2013
対象作品: 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides
部門: best short fiction
結果: winner
Andre Norton Award
2018
対象作品: The Art of Starving
部門: Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
主催: SFWA
結果: winner
John W. Campbell Memorial Award
2019
対象作品: Blackfish City
部門: Best Science Fiction Novel
結果: winner
Locus Award
2023
対象作品: Boys, Beasts & Men
部門: Best Collection
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Art of Starving

2017年 Young Adult Science Fiction

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.

eating disorderqueersupernatural

Blackfish City

2018年 Science Fiction

A science fiction novel set in a floating Arctic city.

social issuesfuture city

Boys, Beasts & Men

2022年 Short story collection

Collection of previously published and new stories with introduction by Amal El-Mohtar.

beastsmonstershumanity

57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides

2013年 Horror

Short story that won the Shirley Jackson Award.

suicidehorror

全著作

  • The Art of Starving (2017)
  • Blackfish City (2018)
  • Destroy All Monsters (2019)
  • The Blade Between (2020)
  • Boys, Beasts & Men (2022)

作風・主題

文体
evocativedisturbinggrim but compelling
頻出モチーフ
speculative fictionsocial issuesbeasts and monsters

健康

  • eating disorder
    思春期
    Influenced the creation of the novel The Art of Starving

評価・遺産

American science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction author. Winner of Shirley Jackson Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Locus Award. Known for exploring social issues in speculative fiction.

引用

  • Life is magic. Human society is horror. The world is science fiction.
    出典: Locus (2016) (2016年)

豆知識

  • Grew up in Hudson, New York, where his family ran a butcher shop
  • Works as a community organizer for a homelessness organization
  • Lives with his husband in New York City
  • Attended the 2012 Clarion Workshop