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Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight by Cat Rambo (Paper Golem, August 2009, 978-0-9795349-5-9, $14.00, 177pp, tp, oc, cover by Carrie Ann Baade) [edited by Michael Livingston & Lawrence M. Schoen]
Collection of 20 stories, six original. Introduction by Michael Livingston.
Details taken from online listing.

9 · Eight Letters of Wonder · Michael Livingston · in

11 · Her Eyes Like Sky, and Coal, and Moonlight · Cat Rambo · ss

21 · The Accordion · Cat Rambo · vi The Cafe Irreal #14, May 2005

25 · I’ll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Clarkesworld #10, July 2007

37 · Heart in a Box · Cat Rambo · ss

45 · In the Lesser Southern Isles [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss

57 · Up the Chimney · Cat Rambo · ss Postcards from… March 7 2008

59 · The Silent Familiar · Cat Rambo · ss

69 · Events at Fort Plentitude [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Weird Tales January/February 2008

77 · Dew Drop Coffee Lounge · Cat Rambo · ss Clockwork Phoenix ed. Mike Allen, Norilana Books, 2008

85 · Narrative of a Beast’s Life [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Realms of Fantasy December 2009

101 · Eagle-Haunted Lake Sammamish · Cat Rambo · ss Shimmer v2 #2, 2007

111 · Sugar [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Fantasy ed. Sean Wallace & Paul G. Tremblay, Prime Books, 2007

119 · A Key Decides Its Destiny [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Say… #6, 2007

123 · The Towering Monarch of His Mighty Race · Cat Rambo · ss Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show #6, October 2007

137 · In Order to Conserve · Cat Rambo · ss

141 · Rare Pears and Greengages [Altered America] · Cat Rambo · ss

151 · A Twine of Flame [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss

161 · The Dead Girl’s Wedding March [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Fantasy Magazine #5, Winter 2006/2007

165 · Worm Within · Cat Rambo · ss Clarkesworld #24, September 2008

169 · Magnificent Pigs · Cat Rambo · ss Strange Horizons November 27 2006

177 · A Chronology of Tabat · [uncredited] · bi

Near + Far by Cat Rambo (Hydra House, September 19, 2012, 978-0-9848301-4-5, $14.95, 157+145pp, tp, co, cover by Sean Counley)
Collection, or omnibus of two collections published Ace Double style: Near with 12 near-future stories and Far with 12 far-future stories (three original).
Details taken from online listing.

· Introduction · Cat Rambo · in

· Near · Cat Rambo · co

· The Mermaids Singing, Each to Each · Cat Rambo · ss Clarkesworld #38, November 2009

· Peaches of Immortality · Cat Rambo · ss Fantasy Magazine (online) #51, June 2011, as “The Immortality Game”

· Close Your Eyes · Cat Rambo · ss Apex Magazine #21, February 2011

· Therapy Buddha · Cat Rambo · ss 2020 Visions ed. Rick Novy, M-Brane Press, 2010

· Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut · Cat Rambo · ss Strange Horizons October 26 2009

· 10 New Metaphors for Cyberspace · Cat Rambo · ss Abyss & Apex #21, 1st Quarter 2007

· Memories of Moments, Bright as Falling Stars · Cat Rambo · ss Talebones #34, Winter 2006

· RealFur · Cat Rambo · ss Serpentarius v1 #1, 2008

· Not Waving, but Drowning · Cat Rambo · ss Redstone Science Fiction #6, November 2010

· Vocobox · Cat Rambo · ss

· Long Enough and Just So Long · Cat Rambo · ss Lightspeed #9, February 2011

· Legends of the Gone · Cat Rambo · ss Talebones #39, Winter 2009

· Far · Cat Rambo · co

· Futures · Cat Rambo · ss The Dream People November 2011

· Kallakak’s Cousins · Cat Rambo · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction March 2008

· Amid the Words of War · Cat Rambo · ss Lightspeed #4, September 2010

· Timesnip · Cat Rambo · ss Basement Stories August 2011

· Angry Rose’s Lament · Cat Rambo · ss Abyss & Apex #28, 4th Quarter 2008

· Seeking Nothing · Cat Rambo · ss Daily Science Fiction September 10 2010

· A Querulous Flute of Bone · Cat Rambo · ss Tales from the Fathomless Abyss ed. Philip Athans, Athans & Associates Creative Consulting, 2011

· Zeppelin Follies · Cat Rambo · ss Crossed Genres Magazine #36, December 2011

· Space Elevator Music · Cat Rambo · ss

· Surrogates · Cat Rambo · ss Clockwork Phoenix 3 ed. Mike Allen, Norilana Books, 2010

· Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain · Cat Rambo · ss

· Bus Ride to Mars · Cat Rambo · ss Daily Science Fiction February 24 2012

The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories by Cat Rambo & Jeff VanderMeer (Two Free Lancers Press, December 2007, 978-0-8095-7268-7, $9.99, 90pp, tp, co, cover by James Owen)
Collection of six fantasy stories, one collaborative, three solo stories by Rambo, one solo by VanderMeer, and one a collaboration between VanderMeer, M.F. Korn, & D.F. Lewis. Illustrated by Kris Dikeman.

9 · The Surgeon’s Tale · Jeff VanderMeer & Cat Rambo · nv Subterranean (online) Winter 2007

49 · The Dead Girl’s Wedding March [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Fantasy Magazine #5, Winter 2006/2007

55 · The Farmer’s Cat · Jeff VanderMeer · ss Polyphony, Volume 5 ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005

63 · A Key Decides Its Destiny [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Say… #6, 2007

71 · Three Sons · Cat Rambo · ss 2001

75 · The Strange Case of the Lovecraft Café · M. F. Korn, Des Lewis & Jeff VanderMeer · ss Scattered, Covered, Smothered ed. Jason Erik Lundberg, Two Cranes Press, 2004

If This Goes On ed. Cat Rambo (Parvus Press, 2019, 978-0-9997842-1-1, $19.99, 296pp, tp, oa, cover by Bernard Lee)
Kickstarter edition.
Details taken from online listing.

1 · Green Glass: A Love Story · E. Lily Yu · ss

11 · Twelve Histories Scrawled in the Sky · Aimee Ogden · ss

15 · Dead Wings · Rachel Chimits · ss

27 · Welcome to Gray · Cyd Athens · ss

43 · The Stranded Time Traveler Embraces the Inevitable · Scott Edelman · ss

51 · Good Pupils · Jack Lothian · ss

59 · All the Good Dogs Have Been Eaten · Gregory Jeffers · ss

71 · The Sinking Tide · Conor Powers-Smith · ss

75 · Mustard Seeds and the Elephant’s Foot · Priya Sridhar · ss

85 · Mr. Percy’s Shortcut · Andy Duncan · ss

95 · A Gardener’s Guide to the Apocalypse · Lynette Mejía · ss

109 · But for Grace · Hal Y. Zhang · ss

125 · Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness · Nick Mamatas · ss

129 · The Last Adventure of Jack Laff: The Dayveil Gambit · Steven Barnes · ss

147 · Three Data Units · Kitty-Lydia Dye · ss

161 · One Shot · Tiffany E. Wilson · ss

173 · King Harvest (Will Surely Come) · Nisi Shawl · ss

181 · Counting the Days · Kathy Schilbach · ss

189 · Making Happy · Zandra Renwick · ss

201 · The Machine · Chris Kluwe · ss

209 · That Our Flag Was Still There · Sarah Pinsker · ss

223 · The Editor’s Eyes · Calie Voorhis · ss

229 · Free WiFi · Marie Vibbert · ss

241 · Discobolos · James Wood · ss

249 · Fine · Jamie Lackey · ss

253 · Bulletproof Tattoos · Paul Crenshaw · ss

267 · Call and Answer · Langley Hyde · ss

273 · A Pocketful of Dolphins · Judy Helfrich · ss

285 · Tasting Bleach and Decay in the City of Dust · Beth Dawkins · ss

289 · The Choices You Make · Sylvia Spruck Wrigley · ss

Nebula Awards Showcase 56: Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Cat Rambo (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, January 6, 2025, 978-1-958243-00-8, $18.95, 487pp, tp, an, cover by Lauren Raye Snow)
Details supplied by John Boston.

1 · Introduction · Cat Rambo · in

5 · Part One: Essay

7 · Cerberus Is the Family Dog: Adapting Greek Myth in Hades · Greg Kasavin · ar

15 · The Good Place: Life, Death, and the Meaning of Everything · Kelly Robson · ar

23 · Part Two: Short Story

25 · Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math · Aimee Picchi · vi Daily Science Fiction January 3 2020

29 · Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse · Rae Carson · ss Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020

47 · The Eight-Thousanders · Jason Sanford · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction September/October 2020

69 · A Guide for Working Breeds · Vina Jie-Min Prasad · nv Made to Order ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris US, 2020

97 · My Country Is a Ghost · Eugenia Triantafyllou · ss Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020

111 · Open House on Haunted Hill · John Wiswell · ss Diabolical Plots #64, June 2020

121 · Part Three: Novelette

123 · Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super · A. T. Greenblatt · nv Uncanny Magazine #34, May/June 2020

155 · The Pill · Meg Elison · nv Big Girl Plus… by Meg Elison, PM Press, 2020

187 · Shadow Prisons · Caroline M. Yoachim · gp (r)

_187 · Part 1: The Shadow Prison Experiment [Vivian Watanabe] · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Ignorance Is Strength ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey & Christie Yant, Broad Reach Publishing, 2020

_203 · Part 2: Shadow Prisons of the Mind [Vivian Watanabe] · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Burn the Ashes ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey & Christie Yant, Broad Reach Publishing, 2020

_220 · Part 3: The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma [Vivian Watanabe] · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Or Else the Light ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey & Christie Yant, Broad Reach Publishing, 2020

239 · Stepsister · Leah Cypess · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2020

279 · Two Truths and a Lie · Sarah Pinsker · nv Tor.com June 17 2020

313 · Where You Linger · Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam · nv Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020

345 · Part Four: Novella

347 · Finna · Nino Cipri · ex Tor.com, February 25 2020

369 · The Four Profound Weaves · R. B. Lemberg · ex Tachyon, September 1 2020

391 · Ife-Iyoku, The Tale of Imadeyunuagbon · Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki · ex Selene Quarterly Magazine August 2019

405 · Ring Shout · P. Djèlí Clark · ex Tor.com, October 13 2020

419 · Riot Baby · Tochi Onyebuchi · ex Tor.com, January 21 2020

425 · Tower of Mud and Straw · Yaroslav Barsukov · ex Metaphorosis November 2020, as “The Tulips”

441 · Part Five: Novel

443 · Network Effect [Murderbot Diaries] · Martha Wells · ex Tor.com, May 5 2020

459 · Part Six: Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

461 · A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking · T. Kingfisher · ex Argyll Productions, July 2020

477 · Contributor Biographies · [uncredited] · bg

Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage, and Other Novelettes by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage, and Other Novelettes (var. 1) by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

A Leaf in the Storm; A Dog of Flanders and Other Stories by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

Madame la Marquise and Other Novelettes by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

Triangulation: Last Contact ed. Steve Ramey & Jamie Lackey--- see under Jamie Lackey.

Triangulation: Morning After ed. Stephen V. Ramey (PARSEC Ink, July 27, 2012, 978-0-9828606-2-5, $15.00, 210pp, tp, oa, cover by Susan Urbanek Linville)
Original anthology of 24 stories, four reprints; part of an annual series. Authors include Camille Alexa, Ken Chiacchia, and Madhvi Ramani.
Details taken from online listing.

· How the Caterpillar Cheated Death · H. M. McInnes · ss

· The Blue of Distance · Erich William Bergmeier · ss

· Scar Tissue Wings · Aaron Polson · ss

· After the Pipers · Camille Alexa · ss

· Nocte Finem · Henry Tjernlund · ss

· A Late Wind · Tami Harris · ss

· The Zombie Reader · Bruce Memblatt · ss

· After-Spin · Kylie Bullivant · ss

· The Slap of the Plow · Gordon A. Graves · ss

· While She Sleeps, Mountains Tremble · Milo James Fowler · ss

· Orbium · Kalisa Lessnau · ss

· Colliding · Alex Gorman · ss

· The Beast · Jacques Barbéri · ss

· That Goldurned Hole · Gary Cuba · ss

· Nyabinghi’s Sacred Drum · Susan Urbanek Linville · ss

· Protection from Darkness · Jamie Lackey · ss

· The House, the Garden, and Occupants · Amanda C. Davis · ss

· Lilith · Madhvi Ramani · ss

· Course Correction · Kenneth B. Chiacchia · ss

· The Passing-Bell · Lydia S. Gray · ss

· What Now, Callisthenes · Christine Lucas · ss

· The Blue Testament · Marshall Payne · ss Kaleidotrope #5, October 2008

· All Unlooked For · Nathaniel Lee · ss

· The Third Portal · DeAnna Knippling · ss

Bewitched, Bothered & BeVampyred ed. Terey Daly Ramin & Gail Northman--- see under Gail Northman.

Vacation Stories by Santiago Ramon y Cajal (University of Illinois Press, June 2001, 0-252-02655-1, $19.95, xxiii+245pp, hc, co, cover by Glen C. Davies)
Collection of five early SF tales, with an introduction and translation by Laura Otis from (Cuentos de vacaciones: Narraciones seudocientificas 1905 as by “Dr. Bacteria”). This is the first English translation.

vii · Introduction · Laura Otis · in

xxi · Preface · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · pr

1 · For a Secret Offense, Secret Revenge · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

38 · The Fabricator of Honor · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

69 · The Accursed House · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

122 · The Corrected Pessimist · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

169 · The Natural Man and the Artificial Man · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

243 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi

Smoke Signals by Octavio Ramos, Jr. (Delirium Books, November 2000, $6.00, 72pp, ph, co, cover by Jason Just)
Details taken from online listing.

· Chico’s Hand · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · in

· A Disciple of the Wolf · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ar

· Iselda · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · vi Black Lotus v1 #2, 1993

· The Call · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss Red Eft Fall 1994

· Faith · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss The Silver Web #7, Fall/Winter 1991

· The Sound of Chicharones · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· Chant for Sonya Wolf · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· Punk Bitch · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss After Hours Winter 1990

· Abigail’s Hand Mirror · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss Whispers from the Shattered Forum #3, Summer 2000

· Jack’s Lantern · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· The Eyes of Eretica · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· Passchendaele · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· Children of the Sun · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

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