Cat Rambo

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2009
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Closer Than You Think

1 - Peaches of Immortality (Dec-2014)
2 - English Muffin, Devotion on the Side (Jan-2015)

The Disco Space Opera

1 - You Sexy Thing (Nov-2021)
2 - Devil's Gun (Sep-2023)
3 - Rumor Has It (Sep-2024)

Superlives

1 - Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut (Dec-2014)

The Tabat Quartet

1 - Beasts of Tabat (Feb-2015)
2 - Hearts of Tabat (Apr-2018)
3 - Exiles of Tabat (May-2021)

The World Beside Us

1 - Jaco Tours (Jan-2015)
2 - Can You Hear the Moon? (Jan-2015)
3 - Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane (Jan-2015)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight

    Small Press newcomer, Paper Golem, debuts the first in a annual series of single author collections by brilliant new authors. EYES LIKE SKY AND COAL AND MOONLIGHT brings together twenty stories from the extraordinary talent of fantasy author Cat Ramb...

  • Clockwork Fairies

    Desiree feels the most at home with her clockwork creations, but Claude worries about all this science and Darwinist nonsense -- after all, where do clockwork fairies fall in the Great Chain of Being?...

  • Near + Far

    Whether set in terrestrial oceans or on far-off space stations, Cat Rambo's masterfully told stories explore themes of gender, despair, tragedy, and the triumph of both human and non-human alike. Cats talk, fur wraps itself around you, aliens oversta...

  • Near ] Far

    Whether set in terrestrial oceans or on far-off space stations, Cat Rambo's masterfully told stories explore themes of gender, despair, tragedy, and the triumph of both human and non-human alike. Cats talk, fur wraps itself around you, aliens oversta...

  • Rappacini's Crow

    Steampunk short story, part of the Altered America series. In a darker version of America, an ongoing war fights for the precious substance called phlogiston. A Native American nurse tends soldiers destroyed by the war, but finds himself enmeshed...

  • Events at Fort Plentitude

    In this short story, an exiled soldier tries to wait out a winter in a fort beleaguered by fox-spirits and winter demons. Master storyteller Cat Rambo delivers another enchanting secondary world fantasy in a story that originally appeared in Weird Ta...

  • All the Pretty Little Mermaids

    In this short story, artist Petra Mookjai tries to cope with a toxic world where feminism has become a bewildering and increasingly splintered state. When she is given a toy for her teenage daughter, a breeding kit for tiny multicolored mermaids, she...

  • Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut

    Superlives - 1

    What's a feminist superhero to do in the face of the patriarchy? Ms. Liberty, the mysterious X, Dr. Arcane, Zanycat, Rocketwoman, the Sphinx, and Kilroy team up to battle not just villains, but popular culture itself in this short story about the for...

  • Peaches of Immortality

    Closer Than You Think - 1

    When his wife dies under mysterious circumstances, Glen is plunged back into a mystery from long ago in high school: a quartet of popular teens who couldn't fail at anything. And with one of them seemingly intent on coaxing him to bed, will he succum...



  • Zeppelin Follies

    In a wacky world filled with advertising zeppelins, muffin-baking robots, and software-generated fiction, a writer finds herself pursued by heiress Mimsy and her ambitious servitor.This short story originally appeared in online magazine Crossed Genre...

  • Kallakak's Cousins

    Kallakak just wants to run his shop and mourn his mate, but instead he's plagued wtth problems: the rapacious Jellidoos want to seize his shop, while his newly arrived relatives are causing all manner of mayhem on Twicefar Station. All the while, pol...

  • Amid the Words of War

    In this short story, which originally appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, an exiled alien mourns for the race that will no longer accept it.Find out why Endeavour, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated Cat Rambo’s been called one of the strongest ...

  • Can You Hear the Moon?

    The World Beside Us - 2

    In this short story, which originally appeared un Superficial Flesh, a teenage girl in smalltown faces one of the most difficult challenges she'll ever endure: upcoming adulthood. As she stands on the brink between innocence and experience, will magi...

  • Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain

    In this Nebula-nominated short story, a Minor Propagandist on Planet Porcelain finds love. Rambo's crisp, evocative prose combines with an innovative and poetic world to create a showcase of the heights that speculative fiction can reach.Find out why...

  • I Come From the Dark Universe

    In this short story, life on tumultuous TwiceFar station is much the lonely existence same day to day for Bo. But when he comes upon a mysterious woman who claims to come from an alternate universe, he must face his strange attraction to her.Find out...

  • Jaco Tours

    The World Beside Us - 1

    In this short supernatural horror story set in Jaco Beach, a visit to a Costa Rican nature sanctuary turns very strange indeed for Joshua when the tourists he'd hoped to fleece turn out to be something other than expected.World Fantasy, Nebula, and E...

  • English Muffin, Devotion on the Side

    Closer Than You Think - 2

    In this short story, which originally appeared in online magazine Daily Science Fiction, George leaves copies of himself to his friends and family when he dies. The problem is -- what happens when you're only a copy?Find out why Endeavour, Nebula, an...

  • Love, Resurrected

    In this short story, which originally appeared in the online magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies, general Aife Croffadottir is acknowledged one of the finest military minds of her time -- which is why the sorcerer Balthus commands her to her service eve...

  • Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane

    The World Beside Us - 3

    In this short story, which originally appeared in the Glitter and Mayhem anthology, small-town Indiana in the 80s is an uncomfortable place for Arturo, who has a secret life at the local gay bar. When he introduces his best friend, Anna, to the place...



  • Sugar

    In this short story, which originally appeared in Fantasy Magazine, a sorceress in the Southern Isles mourns her dying lover while being wooed by a pirate lover. Find out why Endeavour, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated Cat Rambo’s been cal...

  • Beasts of Tabat

    The Tabat Quartet - 1

    Mythical beasts. Legendary gladiators. The fate of a boy entwined with epic revolution. When countryboy Teo arrives in the coastal city of Tabat, he finds it a hostile place, particularly to a boy hiding an enormous secret. It’s also a city in turm...

  • The Subtler Art

    "The Subtler Art" was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Cat Rambo says, "This is the second time I've written about Serendib (the first story featured the antagonist from...

  • Neither Here Nor There

    Cat Rambo's newest collection of fantasy fiction contains both work original to the collection as well as work from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, and other leading fantasy fiction magazines. The work is presented in the same double-sided format a...

  • Altered America

    Convention edition. Steampunk fans will rejoice in the appearance of Altered America: Steampunk Stories, collecting Nebula and World Fantasy Award-nominated author Cat Rambo’s steampunk fantasies, including “Clockwork Fairies,” “Snakes on a A...

  • Hearts of Tabat

    The Tabat Quartet - 2

    In the second book of The Tabat Quartet, Nebula award-winning author Cat Rambo expands the breathtaking story from Beasts of Tabat with new points of view as Adelina, Sebastiano, and others add their voices. Tabat is a world, a society, and...

  • If This Goes On

    A bold new anthology born of rage and sorrow and hope. 30 writers look at what today's politics and policies will do to shape our world a generation from now.Some of today's most visionary writers of science fiction project us forward to the world of...

  • Carpe Glitter

    A novelette from Cat Rambo, author of The Tabat Quartet. What do you do when someone else's past forces itself on your own life? Sorting through the piles left behind by a grandmother who was both a stage magician and a hoarder, Persephone Aim fi...

  • Crazy Beautiful

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  • Exiles of Tabat

    The Tabat Quartet - 3

    Return to a beautifully wrought and immersive world where intelligent magical creatures fight for their right to be free. Revolution. Riot. Enslaved magical creatures and an exiled, reluctant hero. Bella Kanto finds herself aboard a hostile ship b...



  • You Sexy Thing

    The Disco Space Opera - 1

    Just when they thought they were out. TwiceFar station is at the edge of the known universe, and that's just how Niko Larson, former Admiral in the Grand Military of the Hive Mind, likes it. Retired and finally free of the continual war of ...

  • Devil's Gun

    The Disco Space Opera - 2

    No one escapes their past as the crew of the You Sexy Thing attempts to navigate the hazards of opening a pop-up restaurant and the dangers of a wrathful pirate-king seeking vengeance in Cat Rambo's Devil's Gun.Life’s hard when you’re on the run ...

  • Rumor Has It

    The Disco Space Opera - 3

    The crew of the You Sexy Thing navigates the aftermath of facing down a pirate king and the relationships that they have created with one another in Cat Rambo's action adventure science fiction Rumor Has It, the third book in the Disco Space Opera.Th...

Award-Winning Books by Cat Rambo

Carpe Glitter
2019 Nebula Award -- Novelette


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cat Rambo has published 32 books.

Cat Rambo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rumor Has It, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Cat Rambo, Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight, was published in August 2009.

Yes. Cat Rambo has 5 series.
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