{"id":294,"date":"2026-02-20T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:01:39","slug":"fermis-cat-in-blue-planet-press-far-futures-four","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/?page_id=294","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fermi&#8217;s Cat&#8221; in Blue Planet Press, Far Futures Four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My short story &#8220;Fermi&#8217;s Cat&#8221; has been published by Blue Planet Press for Far Futures Four, Saturn&#8217;s Moon Titan, now available in fine bookstores everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amari Gorgas is seeking exotic life in the cold hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, and is the only modified human in the Outer Ecliptic capable of the task. He finds Titan both alive and dead, aliens both absent and just over the horizon, until he himself becomes Fermi&#8217;s Cat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope Springs Eternal, &#8220;Fermi&#8217;s Cat&#8221; was rejected 21 times before it finally sold. This is my fifth professional short story sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-blue-planet-press wp-block-embed-blue-planet-press\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qG7AXUDXMD\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blueplanetpress.net\/\">Welcome to Blue Planet Press<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Welcome to Blue Planet Press&#8221; &#8212; Blue Planet Press\" src=\"https:\/\/blueplanetpress.net\/embed\/#?secret=dIngDzZMH3#?secret=qG7AXUDXMD\" data-secret=\"qG7AXUDXMD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-678x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-678x1024.png 678w, https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-768x1160.png 768w, https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1017x1536.png 1017w, https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1356x2048.png 1356w, https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-624x942.png 624w, https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png 1695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My short story &#8220;Fermi&#8217;s Cat&#8221; has been published by Blue Planet Press for Far Futures Four, Saturn&#8217;s Moon Titan, now available in fine bookstores everywhere. Amari Gorgas is seeking exotic life in the cold hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, and is the only modified human in the Outer Ecliptic capable of the task. He finds Titan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}