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Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo (born November 14, 1963) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. Rambo uses they/them pronouns.[1] Rambo is winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette for "Carpe Glitter".[2] They were co-editor of Fantasy Magazine[3][4] from 2007 to 2011, which earned them a 2012 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional nomination.[5]

Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo
Born (1963-11-14) November 14, 1963 (age 61)
Bryan, Texas, U.S.
OccupationWriter, editor
LanguageEnglish
Alma materJohns Hopkins Writing Seminars
Clarion West Writers Workshop
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Notable worksBeasts of Tabat (2015)
"Carpe Glitter" (2019)
You Sexy Thing (2021)
Notable awardsNebula–Novelette (2020)
Website
kittywumpus.net
Rambo reading at the KGB bar in 2009

Career

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A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Clarion West Writers Workshop, Rambo writes predominantly fantasy and science fiction. Their short stories have appeared in such places as Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld Magazine and Tor.com since the release of "Grandmother's Road Trip" in Chizine #26 in 2005.[6][7] Some of their short stories have received recognition; in 2012, their story "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain", initially published in Near / Far: Stories of the Near Future and the Far (2012), was shortlisted for a Nebula Award for Best Short Story.[8] "Carpe Glitter" was subsequently awarded the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.[2] They later made longer works; their first novel, Beasts of Tabat, was published by Wordfire Press in 2015 and is the first of a fantasy quartet. It was shortlisted for the Compton Crook Award.[9]

Rambo collaborated with Jeff VanderMeer on The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories, published in 2007. They collaborated in a new weird round-robin writing project for editors by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, published in the 2008 anthology The New Weird ("Festival Lives", pp. 365).[10][11] They were the co-editor with Fran Wilde of Ad Astra: The SFWA 50th Anniversary Cookbook (2015).[12]

In 2008, they donated their archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.[13]

They also work with Armageddon, a fantasy MUD, under the name Sanvean,[14] and write gaming articles. Their background in technology writing includes work for Microsoft and Security Dynamics.

They are a member of the Codex Writers Group and, in 2008, was appointed chair of the Copyright Committee of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).[4] Rambo served two two-year terms as President of the SFWA from 2015 through 2019[15][16] following one year as Vice President. Rambo was the Writer Guest of Honor at Norwescon 44 in April 2022.[17]

Awards

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Ref:[18][19]

Literary awards

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Year Work Award Result Ref
2008 "The Surgeon's Tale" Locus Award Novelette Nominated—21st
2010 Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight Endeavour Award — Shortlisted
2010 "Narrative of a Beast's Life" Locus Award Short Story Nominated—8th
2011 "Clockwork Fairies" Locus Award Short Story Nominated—23rd
2013 "Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain" Nebula Award Short Story Shortlisted
2016 Beasts of Tabat Compton Crook Award — Shortlisted
2017 "Left Behind" Locus Award Short Story Nominated—39th
2020 "Carpe Glitter" Nebula Award Novelette Won
2022 "Crazy Beautiful" Locus Award Short Story Nominated—8th
You Sexy Thing Dragon Award Science Fiction Novel Shortlisted
Locus Award Science Fiction Novel Nominated—10th

As magazine editor

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Year Work Award Result Ref
2009 Fantasy Magazine Locus Award Magazine Nominated—19th
2010 Nominated—14th
2011 Nominated—12th
2012 World Fantasy Award Special Award—Non-professional Shortlisted

Bibliography

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Novels

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Disco Space Opera

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  • —— (2021). You Sexy Thing (hardcover 1st ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–304. ISBN 9781250269300.
  • —— (2022). Devil's Gun (hardcover 1st ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–272. ISBN 9781250269355.
  • —— (2024). Rumor Has It (hardcover 1st ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–256. ISBN 9781250269393.

Tabat Quartet

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Novellas

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Chapbook form

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Collections

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Short fiction

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  • —— (2008). "The Bumblety's Marble". In Ekaterina Sedia (ed.). Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy.
  • —— (2011). Clockwork Fairies. Tor.com. ISBN 9781429927567.
  • —— (2013). "A Man and His Parasite". In Sophie Yorkston (ed.). SQ Mag, Edition 8.
  • —— (March 2014). "All the Pretty Little Mermaids". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (3): 66–70.
  • —— (April 2014). "Bud Webster". In Conversation. Analog. 134 (4): 44–45.

References

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  1. ^ "Cat Rambo". Macmillan. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
  2. ^ a b "2019 Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  3. ^ Payne, Marshall (July 1, 2008). "An Interview with Cat Rambo". The Fix. TTA Press (ttapress.com). Archived 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  4. ^ a b Strock, Ian Randal (July 8, 2008). "SFWA appoints three new coordinators". SFScope.com. Retrieved 2010-04-17. Cat Rambo has been appointed chairman of the SFWA Copyright Committee. Rambo, a member since 2005, is the co-editor of Fantasy Magazine, and has worked in the fields of network security and technology writing, as well as teaching. They have worked with both the Copyright Exploratory Committee and the Copyright Committee, as well as written copy for the Nebula web site.
  5. ^ "2012 World Fantasy Awards℠ | World Fantasy Convention". Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  6. ^ Ionescu, Iulian (December 1, 2014). "Interview with Author and Editor Cat Rambo". Fantasy Scroll Magazine (fantasyscrollmag.com). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-12-01.
  7. ^ "Chizine #26 (Oct-Dec 2005) - Tangent Online". 2005-10-03. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  8. ^ "2012 Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  9. ^ "Wilde Wins 2016 Compton Crook Award". Locus Online. 2016-05-17. Retrieved 2024-09-13.
  10. ^ The New Weird (first edition, 2008) publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  11. ^ Pflug, Ursula (July 2008). "The New Weird, A Review of the Anthology". The Internet Review of Science Fiction (irosf.com). Archived from the original on 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  12. ^ "SFWA Cookbook Available For Pre-Order". SFWA. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  13. ^ "Cat Rambo Papers | Northern Illinois University". Archon (archon.lib.niu.edu). Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  14. ^ Rambo, Cat (January 2000). "I Think, Therefore I Roleplay". Imaginary Realities. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
  15. ^ "2015 SFWA Election Results". SFWA. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  16. ^ "SFWA Board". Archived from the original on 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  17. ^ "Norwescon 44: The Stars of Home". Norwescon. March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  18. ^ "Award Bibliography: Cat Rambo". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  19. ^ "sfadb : Cat Rambo Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  20. ^ "Fantastic Fiction.com And the Last Trump Shall Sound".
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