cat rambo “the most entertaining game I’ve ever played“, “the most creative, emotionally involved mud on the Net” and “a place of astonishing beauty and detail“. They continue to do some game writing as well as technology journalism and book reviews. A longtime volunteer with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), Cat served as its Vice President from 2014-2015 and its President for two terms, from 2015-2019 and continues to volunteer with the organization. For more about Cat, as well as links to their fiction, see http://www. kittywumpus.net
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ohn Barth described Cat Rambo’s writings as “works of urban mythopoeia” — their stories take place in a universe where chickens aid the lovelorn, Death is just another face on the train, and Bigfoot gives interviews to the media on a daily basis. They have worked as a programmer-writer for Microsoft and a Tarot card reader, professions which, they claim, both involve a certain combination of technical knowledge and willingness to go with the flow. In 2005 they attended the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. Although no longer actively involved with the game, Cat is one of the minds behind Armageddon MUD, the oldest roleplay-intensive MUD (an interactive text-based game) on the Internet, which has been described as “like no other mud I have played before“, 36 | UncagedBooks.com
kittywumpus.net Welcome to Cat Rambo Uncaged: Welcome to Uncaged! You write primarily in Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. Your next release, is scheduled for Fall, 2020 called Exiles of Tabat. Can you tell readers more about this book? Is this part of a series? It is indeed part of a fantasy series, and is the third of a quartet. The fourth, Gods of Tabat, should be appearing in late 2021 from Wordfire Press. It involves a world where the intelligent magical beasts – unicorns, minotaurs, griffons and all the rest – that have been enslaved are asserting their rights in Tabat, a city torn by political
