Sam J Miller

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Gay shit. Sometimes even award-winning gay shit. BLACKFISH CITY; etc. RED STAR HUSTLE is a USA Today Bestseller! https://linktr.ee/samjmiller

A page of copy: “What does a handsome activist such as yourself do with his evenings?” He smiled, then frowned. His ears were way too big, and absolutely perfect. “Hang out with my boyfriends, mostly.” “Boyfriends,” I said. “What fun.” “It is, mostly,” he said, rubbing a hand through red-blonde hair, and like the human cinnamon bun that he was he utterly failed to keep me from seeing in his face how ambivalent he was about the relationship. “I apologize,” I said. “I would not have asked you out if I had known you were partnered.” “It’s okay,” he said. “We’re open. Was that what that was? You asking me out?” His grin was boyish, mischievious, and made me feel a little feral.
Protest signs: fuck fascism, dykes against ice, hot girls hate ice, a big pink middle finger
An ebook with the first chapter of ULYSSES: four footnotes by the end of the first sentence alone, including one for the chapter header "1"
Two men in blue shirts holding microphones sitting in front of a bookstore wall.
Cover for PALACES OF THE CROW Text: RAY NAYLER WITH SAM J. MILLER Thu, 6/11/2026 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm PLACE: Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11217
Image of a lion on a bull skull in front of smokestacks with the text JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING
Three images of a big protest at the Boise Capital Building, including signs that say NO KINGS YAS QUEENS and WHERE'S A BLOOD CLOT WHEN YOU NEED ONE
Jupiter and Io and the text SAM J MILLER IS NOW #4 RISING IN FICTION
A graphic of Jupiter and Io, with the text "1: I immediately attract unwanted attention. Chapter One of Jupiter Ruins Everything, in which Deimos Zaragoza comes home to find he's made two grave miscalculations."
Snow piled up on fire escape, face pressed into it.
Headshots of four people, the cover of BLACKFISH CITY; the text IN PURSUIT OF HEALTHY AND EQUITABLE CITIES / THURSDAY FEBRUARY 12, 6 TO 8 PM, Logos for the National Building Museum, the NEA, and Freedom 250.
Starry night sky with tree branches
Orange pink violet sunset over a forest by a river
Graffiti on a railway underpass wall, including the word "fucksgiving"
Flyer: Freedom to Read Act Read In Join us in urging Governor Hochul to sign the Freedom to Read Act, ensuring our schools are protected from library censorship. Monday Dec. 8th 3:30PM Union Square at 17th Street.
Triangle of three stars in the sky above bare winter trees
FANTASTIC FICTION AT KGB READING SERIES LARA ELENA DONNELLY & SAM J. MILLER WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12th 7PM KGB BAR 85 E. 4TH STREET NYC
Authors Mary Robinette Kowal and Sam J Miller sign books at a bookstore event.
BOOK LAUNCH AND CONVERSATION WITH SU J SOKOL AND RICH LARSON, MODERATED BY SAM J MILLER THURSDAY SEP 25TH 5-7PM / MUSEUM OF RECLAIMED URBAN SPACE AT 155 LOISAIDA AVENUE
Two handsome gentlemen at a diner booth between two mirrors that give the illusion that they extend into infinity.
Amanda Lepore drinking from a bottle of water while a man in sunglasses holds a pink parasol for her and also helps hold up her arm. Also two models pose in the background
A box of rubber squeeze toys of the Statue of Liberty, with the headline SQUEEZE ME TO HEAR ME SCREAM!
The text of a page from Walt Whitman, in which someone has scribbled GAYS UNITE in tiny cursive letters in the margin.
Collage of three photos: Grace Jones, Janelle Monáe, and both of them standing together
Two trans pride flags
WEDNESDAY JUNE 11 7PM BOOKS ARE MAGIC PRESENTS AMPLITUDES: STORIES OF QUEER AND TRANS FUTURITY - WITH CONTRIBUTORS DOMINIQUE DICKEY, KATHARINE DUCKETT, MEG ELISON, SAM J. MILLER, & NAT X. RAY
Singer FKA Twigs riding a dancer during a concert, while hands in the foreground wave and hold up cell phones recording
Woman dressed in medieval peasant garb, walking two wolves outside a cathedral
Statue of a man holding a staff standing proudly beside a cow. There's a real bird roosted on the cow statue's head.
Graphic announcing the winner of the Prix ActuSF de l'Uchronie, 2025 - KID WOLF AND KRAKEN BOY, showing the cover of the French edition
An announcement graphic with the French text PRIX ACTUSF DE L'UCHRONIE 2025
Sticker on a bookshelf in an old book store: snake reading a book called SCIENCE and the words DO READ MORE, PLEASE, below
Dragon knitted together from tree roots; text that says FINALISTES GPI 2025
Two newspaper headlines identifying the em dash as a hallmark of ChatGPT writing, as well as the first page of one of my novels, which contains four em dashes, all circled in red.
Protest signs in front of the Washington Monument - DEMOCRACY DIES IN SILENCE and anti-fascist queer-power BLM radical feminist Palestinian solidarity Care Bears
Protest signs: IKEA HAS BETTER CABINETS / TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
Low angle shot looking up at two handsome men holding protest signs on a sunny day in New York City
Clipping from the New York Times: Jean Rice, Advocate for the Homeless, Is Dead at 85 Homeless himself, he was for nearly two decades a pivotal member of Picture the Homeless, a group devoted to changing negative perceptions of the unhoused
Sleeping man with a copy of Kwame Nkrumah's NEO-COLONIALISM: THE LAST STAGE OF IMPERIALISM
A distinguished older man in flannel and a knitted cap, thoughtfully reading a book.
Two protest signs: STOP THE WORLD'S RICHEST MAN FROM STEALING AID FROM THE WORLD'S POOREST CHILDREN / NO MO BROLIGARCHY
Doge sign at a protest: MANY PRODUCT RECALL / AUTOPILOT DEATH / WOW / VERY FASCIST / SUCH CORRUPTION / SO BATTERY FIRE
Lion head protest sign that says STOP THE COUP
Goats, rhinoceros iguanas, and a pigeon.
A blue jay and two cardinals frolicking in the snow
Video with the headline NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT... WHICH IS ALSO A COVER REVEAL
A distant human figure walking a path beneath giant concrete elevated highways
Three video stills of a tattooed dude seen from the back, immersing himself in the freezing ocean
The cover of SUNDOWN IN SAN OJUELA and the author photo of M.M. Olivas.