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Cat Rambo is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor with over 300 original fiction publications. Rambo was co-editor of Fantasy Magazine from 2007 to 2011, which earned them a 2012 World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional nomination. Their short stories have appeared in such places as Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and Tor.com. In 2012, their story “Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain” was a Nebula Award finalist, and in 2019 won the Nebula for Best Novella, “Carpe Glitter.” Their 2023 publications are space opera Devil’s Gun. 2024 releases include Rumor Has It, the 3rd in the space opera series, and fantasy novel Gods of Tabat, the 4th book of The Tabat Quartet.
They are a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Clarion West, where they studied with Octavia E. Butler, Andy Duncan, L. Timmel DuChamp, Connie Willis, Gordon Van Gelder, and Michael Swanwick. Find more about Cat and the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers at catrambo.com.
(science fiction, short story) Most people called her Phoenix. Her former crew used “Captain” before that and “Sir” afterward. Ruby and Ada respectively called her “mother” and “g’ma.” Her hair was silver – not white, but genuine, metallic silver, a long fall against her pale blue skin, the color of a shadow on a piece of willow ware, that made her seems ageless despite the century and more that lay upon her, not to mention all those decades of pirating.
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