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Marie Vibbert

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2023 Nebula and Hugo Award finalist Marie Vibbert has sold over 90 short stories to places like Analog, F&SF, Nature, and more. Her debut novel about a biker gang in outer space, Galactic Hellcats, came out in 2021 and 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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Marie Vibbert The Gods Awoke started as wanting to write a story of a non-telepath in a telepathic society, but it shortly turned into a rescue of a young man, and …moreThe Gods Awoke started as wanting to write a story of a non-telepath in a telepathic society, but it shortly turned into a rescue of a young man, and then you see the bad guy to be defeated was a powerful telepathic being who thought she was a goddess, and so the story evolved into being about that goddess, what made her tick, why she was wrong, how to find out ... and in the process I worked out a lot of my own feelings about religion in a secondary world setting.(less)
Marie Vibbert So glad you liked the story. I'm afraid I don't have a lot of time for reading at the moment, and if I'm honest, dystopia isn't a genre I enjoy, so yo…moreSo glad you liked the story. I'm afraid I don't have a lot of time for reading at the moment, and if I'm honest, dystopia isn't a genre I enjoy, so you'd do better finding someone else. Good luck! (less)
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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.

Members of my newsletter have access to the Beta: https://www.marievibbert.com/newsletter/
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