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Spring 2023 • Vol. XLV No. 2 • Fiction |

A Field Guide to the Bear-Men of Leningrad

By Sam J. Miller

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Sam J. Miller’s books have been called “must read”s and “best of the year” by USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and O: The Oprah Magazine. Miller is the Nebula Award–winning author of Blackfish City (Ecco, 2018), which has been translated into six languages. His short stories have been nominated for World Fantasy and Locus awards, among others, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. Miller is also the last in a long line of butchers. He lives in New York City and at samjmiller.com.

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