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Sydney, Australia

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female

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http://www.catsparks.net/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

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Cat has received a total of seventeen Aurealis and Ditmar awards for writing, editing and art including the Peter McNamara Conveners Award 2004, for services to Australia’s speculative fiction industry. She was the convenor of the Aurealis Awards horror division in 2006 and a judge in the anthologies and collected work category in 2009.

An active member of Science Fiction Writers of America, her fiction is represented by Jill Grinberg Literary Management, New York.

She is currently working on a biopunk trilogy and a suite of post-apocalypse tales set on the New South Wales south coast.
Her story ‘All the Love in the World’ is reprinted in Hartwell and Kramer’s Years Best Science Fiction, Volume 16.

In January 2012 she was one of 12 students cho...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 272 ratings · 71 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Ishtar by Cat Sparks (Goodreads Author), Kaaron Warren, Deborah Biancotti (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Agog! Smashing Stories 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Agog! Terrific Tales 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Agog! Fantastic Fiction 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Agog! Ripping Reads 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia (Editor / Contributor), Forrest Aguirre (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Hal Duncan (Contributor) 3.39 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 by Algis Budrys (Editor / Contributor), L. Ron Hubbard (Creator), Ken Scholes (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Year's Best SF 16 by David G. Hartwell (Editor), Damien Broderick (Contributor), Cat Sparks (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.54 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sprawl by Alisa Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) (editor), Liz Argall (Goodreads Author), Pete Kempshall 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Anywhere but Earth by Keith Stevenson (Goodreads Author) (editor), Sean McMullen, Margo Lanagan 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Cat liked Carole Lanham's review of Ishtar: " Wow, this book is very special and most unusual. Three talented authors take on three different time periods to tell the sweeping tale of the immortal goddess ISHTAR. As a result, readers are treated to three distinctly different tales, each with... " Read more of this review »
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Cat gave to: The Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood read in February, 2012	My rating:
A really terrific read. Absorbing and exciting in a thoughtful kind of way. Her best work to date.
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Cat gave to: Mistification by Kaaron Warren read in February, 2012	My rating:
Am about a third of the way through and really enjoying it so far. I have absolutely no idea of what will happen next.
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Cat made a comment on Thoraiya's review of Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) "Nope, definitely no suck fairy here. Love these freaking books. When I'm a mad old octogenarian, I reckon I'm going to mistake Red Mars for my own mem...more "
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