Miller calls Blackfish City “a hopeful dystopia.” Maybe you don’t need a racist police force in order to have a functional city maybe you don’t need to make homeless people’s lives miserable as your prime mandate for how architecture and public space happen.” “I wanted to imagine a city where many of the sort of problematic things that have been the prime directives of urban policy over the last 30 years in cities like New York were no longer true. Miller uses his fiction to imagine solutions to problems he grapples with in his job as a community organizer and advocate for the homeless.
This woman-an "orcamancer"-brings them close, revealing secret ties that had bound them together all along. They are strangers to each other until a mysterious woman, on a mission of rescue and revenge, rides into town on the back of a killer whale. Like Miller’s hometown of New York City, the book is packed with diverse characters, including Fill, a privileged gay man suffering from a new horrifying disease Kaev, a fighter who’s paid to lose fights Ankit, chief of staff to a hack politician and Soq, a gender-fluid messenger with ambitions of becoming a crime boss like the one he works for. The fictional metropolis is Qaanaak, which floats in arctic waters like a massive 8-armed asterisk and serves as a refuge for those fleeing climate change, resource scarcity and war. He lives in one, has a day job dedicated to making urban life more humane and fair, and has set his new novel, Blackfish City (Ecco, 2018), in a teeming metropolis full of people who are grateful to be there.
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