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Nebula and Hugo Award finalist Marie Vibbert has over 100 short stories in top magazines like Analog, F&SF, Nature, and more. Her debut novel about a biker gang in outer space, Galactic Hellcats, was called "A rip-roaring space heist" by publisher's weekly. It was long-listed by the British Science Fiction Award!

Marie is a software developer in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended the Clarion writer's workshop in 2013 and joined the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2014. She belongs to the Cleveland Science Fiction writer's workshop headed by Mary Turzillo.

She also has been a medieval (SCA) squire, a lineman for the Cleveland Fusion women's tackle football team and has ridden 18% of the roller coasters in North America.

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	Galactic Hellcats (Galactic Hellcats #1) 4.08 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1 by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lesley Conner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alethea Kontis (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lesley Conner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Annie Neugebauer (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 8 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Naomi Kritzer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Grace Chan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gods Awoke 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Multitude 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2026 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Andrei and the Hellcats (Galactic Hellcats #2) 4.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stepping Out of Stream 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Things From Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sura of Blood did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Galactic Hellcats in Love!

Spent the weekend troubleshooting my Visual Novel / Dating Simulator "Galactic Hellcats in Love" which I hope to launch for Valentine's Day.

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