Sasha Miller
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Sasha Miller is the pseudonym of American fantasy writer Georgia Myrle Miller (born October 15, 1933 in Erick, Oklahoma
Erick, Oklahoma
Erick is a city in Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,052 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Erick is located at , elevation 2,060 feet ....

). She has also written under the names Georgia Sallaska, Myrle Benedict, and G. S. Madden.

In 1958 and 1959 she published a trio of stories in Fantastic Universe
Fantastic Universe
Fantastic Universe was a U.S. science fiction magazine which began publishing in the 1950s. It ran for 69 issues, from June 1953 to March 1960, under two different publishers. It was part of the explosion of science fiction magazine publishing in the 1950s in the United States, and was moderately...

as Myrle Benedict: "Sit by the Fire", "The Dancing that We Did", and "The Comanleigh". Fantastic editor Hans Stefan Santesson
Hans Stefan Santesson
Hans Stefan Santesson , was an American editor, writer, and reviewer. He edited the selections of the Unicorn Mystery Book Club in the latter 1940s and early 1950s, the magazines Fantastic Universe from 1956 to 1960, the US edition of the British New Worlds Science Fiction in 1960 and the US...

 included "Sit by the Fire" in his best of anthology The Fantastic Universe Omnibus (1960). As Georgia Sallaska, she wrote three novels of historical fiction
Historical fiction
Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the principal characters tend to be fictional...

: Three Ships and Three Kings (1969), The Last Heracles (1971), and Priam's Daughter (1974).

In the 1980s she began publishing as Sasha Miller. She wrote a number of works set in Andre Norton
Andre Norton
Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...

's Witch World
Witch World
The Witch World by Andre Norton is a long series of fantasy novels set in a parallel universe where magic works and, at the beginning of the series, is exclusively performed by women. The series combines many traits of high fantasy and sword and sorcery. It begins with what is now called the...

, including Gurps Witch World (1989) with Ben W. Miller, a rule book for the GURPS
GURPS
The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...

 role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

 system, and the novel Falcon Magic (1994), published in the On Wings of Magic omnibus. She also collaborated with Norton on the five novels in the Cycle of Oak, Yew, Ash, and Rowan series. Miller's fantasy novel Ladylord (1995), set in medieval Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, was praised by reviewers.
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