Jesse Miller is an American

science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ...

author. His writing career began in 1972, shortly after he left the

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...

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by Jesse Miller, at JivagoSwamidasa.com; published no later than December 28, 2001 (earliest version on archive.org); retrieved August 19, 2019 In 1974, he was a finalist for the second ever

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer The ''Astounding'' Award for Best New Writer (formerly the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) is given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous ...

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at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved August 19, 2019 for his story "Pigeon City". He served in the Air Force for four years until he was 21. He subsequently described his career as "After getting out of the service, I wrote three stories and sold three stories. I had never tried to sell my writing before that time. I was batting 1000 in an arena where some may spend a life time and never get a hit. I knew no different."

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Jesse Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century African-American writers American science fiction writers Speculative fiction writers of African descent Place of birth missing (living people) United States Air Force airmen