Zeppelin Follies

By Cat Rambo

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 Genres and is reprinted in Rambo's collection, Near + Far.

Working with a future reminiscent of Fritz Leiber's The Silver Metal Eggheads or The Green Millenium, Rambo creates a screwball romance with genuine affection for the genre. Her use of deft humor, wry cynicism, and lyrical language create a world with her usual masterful craftsmanship and engaging storytelling.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cat Rambo
• Release date: Nov 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310431876

Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo (they/them) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whose work has appeared in, among others, Asimov's, Weird Tales, Chiaroscuro, Talebones, and Strange Horizons. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where they studied with John Barth and Steve Dixon, they also attended the Clarion West Writers' Workshop. They are currently the managing editor of Fantasy Magazine. They published a collection of stories, Eyes Like Sky And Coal And Moonlight, and their collaboration with Jeff VanderMeer, The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories, appeared in 2007. They live and write in Washington State, and “Cat Rambo” is their real name.

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