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Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sam J. Miller
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Octavia Butler, Ted Chiang, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Jean Genet,
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Blackfish City
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2018
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25 editions
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The Art of Starving
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2017
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10 editions
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Boys, Beasts & Men
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2022
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The Blade Between
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2020
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8 editions
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Destroy All Monsters
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2019
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8 editions
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Let All the Children Boogie
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2021
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Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy
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2022
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Red Star Hustle / Apprehension
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57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides
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The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter
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2017
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“Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead” is a Locus Award nominee!
Fully kvelling over here: the Locus Award ballot just dropped, and my short story “Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead” is a nominee!!
I spent 17 years figuring out how to write this story, and I’m so gratified that folks connected with my angry supernatural drag queen!!
People said it was an “absolute banger,” “full of beautiful queer rage,” and “equal parts chilling and beautiful”!!
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“I used to imagine Better was a place you could get to. A moment when I would look around and see that Everything Was Fine. But that’s not how this works. Being better isn’t a battle you fight and win. Feeling okay is a war, one that lasts your whole life, and the only way to win is to keep on fighting.”
― The Art of Starving
― The Art of Starving
“We want villains. We look for them everywhere. People to pin our misfortunate on. Whose sins and flaws are responsible for all the suffering we see. We want a world where the real monstrosity lies in wicked individuals. Instead of being a fundamental facet of human society, of the human heart.
Stories prime us to search for villains. Because villains can be punished. Villains can be stopped.
But villains are oversimplifications.”
― Blackfish City
Stories prime us to search for villains. Because villains can be punished. Villains can be stopped.
But villains are oversimplifications.”
― Blackfish City
“The strongest people aren’t the ones who are born strong. They’re the ones who know what it’s like to be weak, and have a reason to get stronger. The ones who’ve been hurt. Who’ve had things they love taken from them. The ones with something to fight for.”
― The Art of Starving
― The Art of Starving
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Short Story of the Month - June 2025
'Calved' by Sam J. Miller
'Douen' by Suzan Palumbo
'Dick Pig' by Ian Muneshwar
'To Rise, Blown Open' by Jen Brown
'Miz Boudreaux’s Last Ride' by Christopher Caldwell
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Sci-fi and Heroic...: "We Are the Cloud" by Sam J. Miller | 2 | 16 | Apr 15, 2015 07:57AM | |
| Sci-fi and Heroic...: 2014 Nebula Award-Nominated Short Stories & Novelettes discussion | 14 | 50 | Apr 16, 2015 09:19AM | |
| Sci-fi and Heroic...: "When Your Child Strays From God” by Sam J. Miller | 3 | 14 | Apr 19, 2016 08:24AM | |
| Sci-fi and Heroic...: 2015 Nebula Award short story & novella nominees | 11 | 52 | Apr 22, 2016 01:39AM | |
| YA LGBT Books: * July 2017 New Releases | 4 | 97 | Jul 25, 2017 09:57AM | |
| Sci-fi and Heroic...: "Last Gods" by Sam J. Miller | 4 | 23 | Sep 24, 2017 07:50AM | |
| A Million More Pages: You Had Me at Bingo, Team #3 | 125 | 55 | Nov 28, 2017 06:33AM | |
| Young Adult Book ...: A-Z Reading Challenge 2017 | 119 | 672 | Jan 01, 2018 04:53PM |
“They made this town theirs. And their magic is powerful. Their wards have held for almost two centuries.”
― The Blade Between
― The Blade Between
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Sam, hi. Hope all is well. Since we’re Goodreads friends, I thought I’d share my latest novel, Midlife Crisis, with you."Rob Rosen does madcap gay humor better than anyone else writing today. Midlife Crisis is no exception." - Neil Plakcy, author of The Mahu Investigations
I hope you can pick up a copy. As a special thanks for your time, feel free to message me on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/therobrosen) for a free PDF copy of any of my other 9 novels, which you can find here: http://www.therobrosen.com
All the best,
Rob Rosen
Thanks for your response and the advice! Marketing is not a strength of mine either. If you ever want a free read, just let me know and I will ...more
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