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Cat Sheely is and editor (5 books), author and retired IT Project Director. Cat migrated to Australia at the age of seven and grew up in the northern suburbs of Sydney. She has served with the Royal Australian Navy, managed 20 years in the Australian Public Service and happily returned to private industry. She has a degree in Administration and Grad Dip in Psychology among other things. Her alter ego is deeply embedded in sci-fi (she used to wear her Star Trek communicator badge on her business suits) as well as fantasy and horror. Cat has a sense of the ridiculous and a love of anything weird. She has a vivid imagination and Mike, her husband of many years, knows when she is drifting off into other worlds and realms. She sometimes invites ...more

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	Winds of Change by Elizabeth Fitzgerald (Editor), Zena Shapter (Goodreads Author), Donna Maree Hanson (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Andromeda Spaceways Magazine Issue 66 by Wayne Harris (Editor), Matthew J. Morrison (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Chlo'e Camonayan (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Masques by Gillian Polack (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Scott Hopkins (Editor), Astrid Cooper (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009	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
	Flights Of Fancy by Eileen Backhus, Margaret Barlow, Jan Hanlon 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	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
	Alien Zoo by Cat Sheely (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Debbie Richardson (Editor), Suzanne Newnham (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016	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
	Murder On The First by Cat Sheely (Goodreads Author), Suzanne Newnham (Goodreads Author) (Co-author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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 Seven Little Goatlings by Cat Sheely (Goodreads Author), Suzanne Newnham (Goodreads Author) (Co-author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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
	Viv's Last Hoorah 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2019	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
	Beneath An Ominous Sky 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
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Fallout (Expeditionary Force, #13)

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