Catherynne M. Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. For her
Career
Valente's 2009 book
In 2011, her children's novel
In 2009, she donated her archive to the
She is a regular panelist on the podcast SF Squeecast.[2]
Multimedia and mythpunk
Valente tours with singer/songwriter S. J. Tucker, who has composed albums based on Valente's work. The pair perform reading concerts featuring dancers, aerial artists, art auctions featuring jewelry and paintings based on the novels, and other performances.[3]
Valente is active in the
In a 2006 blog post, Valente coined the term
Selected works
Novels
- The Labyrinth (2004)
- The Ice Puzzle (2004)
- Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams (2005)
- The Grass-Cutting Sword (2006)
- Palimpsest (2009)
- Deathless (2011)
- Radiance (2015)
- The Glass Town Game (McElderry, 2017). Illustrated by Rebecca Green[9][10][11]
- Space Opera (2018)
- Mass Effect: Andromeda Annihilation (2018)
- Comfort Me with Apples (2021)
- Space Oddity (2024)
Novellas
- Silently and Very Fast (2011)
- Six-Gun Snow White (2013)
- Speak Easy (2015)[12]
- The Refrigerator Monologues (2017)
- The Past Is Red (2021)
- The Orphan's Tales
- The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden(vol. 1) (October 2006)
- Book of the Steppe
- Book of the Sea
- The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice(vol. 2) (October 2007)
- Book of the Storm
- Book of the Scald
- A Dirge for Prester John
Published by Night Shade Books:
- The Habitation of the Blessed (2010)
- The Folded World (2011)
- Fairyland
Published by
- Prequel: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While[13] (2011)
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2011) started out in 2009 as a crowdfunded middle-grade online novel (originally, a fictional children's book in Palimpsest).[14]
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (2012)
- The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (2013)
- The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (2015)
- The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (2016)
Anthologies edited
- Nebula Awards Showcase 55 (2021)
Poetry
- Music of a Proto-Suicide (2004)
- Apocrypha (2005)
- Oracles: A Pilgrimage (2006)
- The Descent of Inanna (2006)
- A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects (May 2008)
Nonfiction
- Introduction to Jane Eyre (Illustrated) (2007)
- "Regeneration X" in Chicks Dig Time Lords (2010)
- Indistinguishable from Magic (2014)
Short fiction
- "The Oracle Alone" Music of a Proto-Suicide (2004)
- "Ghosts of Gunkanjima" Papaveria Press (2005)
- "The Maiden-Tree" Cabinet des Fees (2005)
- "Bones Like Black Sugar" Fantasy Magazine (2005)
- "Psalm of the Second Body" PEN Book of Voices (2005)
- "Ascent Is Not Allowed" The Minotaur in Pamplona (2005)
- "Thread: A Triptych" Lone Star Stories (2006)
- "Urchins, While Swimming" Clarkesworld Magazine (2006)
- "Milk and Apples" Electric Velocipede (2006)
- "Temnaya and the House of Books" Mythic (2006)
- "A Grey and Soundless Tide" Salon Fantastique (2006)
- "A Dirge For Prester John" Interfictions (2007)
- "The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth" Lone Star Stories (2007)
- "La Serenissima" Endicott Studio (2007)
- "The Proslogium of the Great Lakes" Farrago's Wainscot (2007)
- "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica" Clarkesworld Magazine (2008)
- "Tales of Beaty and Strangeness: City of Blind Delights" Clockwork Phoenix (2008)
- "The Hanged Man" Farrago's Wainscot (2008)
- "An Anthology of Urban Fantasy: Palimpsest" Paper Cities, ed. Ekaterina Sedia (2008)
- "The Harpooner at the Bottom of the World" Spectra Pulse (2008)
- "Golubash, or, Wine-War-Blood-Elegy" Federations (2009)
- "The Secret History of Mirrors" Clockwork Phoenix 2 (2009)
- "A Book of Villainous Tales:A Delicate Architecture" Troll's Eye View (2009)
- "The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" Clarkesworld Magazine (2009)
- "The Anachronist's Cookbook" Steampunk Tales (2009)
- "A Between Books Anthology:Proverbs of Hell" The Stories in Between (2010)
- "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" Dark Faith (2010)
- "Secretario" Weird Tales (2010)
- "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time" Clarkesworld Magazine (2010)
- "How to Become a Mars Overlord" Lightspeed (2010)
- "15 Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai" Haunted Legends (2010)
- "In the Future When All's Well" Teeth (2011)
- "A Voice Like a Hole" Welcome to Bordertown (2011)
- "The Wolves of Brooklyn" Fantasy Magazine (2011)
- "The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While" Tor.com (2011)
- "White Lines on a Green Field" Subterranean Magazine(2011)
Collections
- This Is My Letter to the World: The Omikuji Project, Cycle One (2010)
- Ventriloquism (2010)
- Myths of Origin, Omnibus collection containing The Labyrinth, Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword, and Under in the Mere (2011)
- The Melancholy of Mechagirl (2013)
- The Bread We Eat in Dreams (2013)
- The Future Is Blue (2018)
Awards
Year | Award | Work (if applicable) |
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2006 | James Tiptree Jr. Award |
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1)[15]
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2007 | storySouth Million Writers Award | Urchins, While Swimming, Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 3[16] |
2007 | World Fantasy Award Nominee (Best Novel) | The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1)[17] |
2008 | Rhysling Award (long poem category) | The Seven Devils of Central California Archived October 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Farrago's Wainscot Summer 2007 |
2008 | Mythopoeic Award (adult literature) |
The Orphan's Tales (series)[18] |
2009 | World Fantasy Award Nominee (nominee, Best Short Story) | A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica, Clarkesworld Magazine May 2008[19] |
2009 | Andre Norton Award | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making[20]
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2010 | CultureGeek Readers' Choice Award (Best Web Fiction of the 21st Century) | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making[21]
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2010 | Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) | Palimpsest[22] |
2010 | Locus Awards (nominee) |
Palimpsest[22] |
2010 | Lambda Literary Awards | Palimpsest[22] |
2012 | Hugo Award for Best Fancast | SF Squeecast (with Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, and Elizabeth Bear)[23] |
2012 | Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) | "Fade to White"[24] |
2012 | Time Top 10 Fiction Books | The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There[25] |
2012 | Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making[26]
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2012 | Locus Award for Best Novella | "Silently and Very Fast" |
2014 | Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book | The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two[27] |
2016 | Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction | "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild"[28] |
2017 | Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There[29] |
2017 | Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
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The Future Is Blue[30]
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2019 | Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) | Space Opera |
2022 | Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) | The Past is Red[31] |
2022 | Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) | "L'Esprit de L'Escalier"[31] |
2022 | Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) | "The Sin of America"[31] |
References
- ^ Thomas, Lynne M. (March 20, 2009). "Hugos, Catherynne Valente Archives, and CLIR Reports". Confessions of a Curator. Archived from the original on November 13, 2012. Retrieved March 21, 2009.
- ^ "List of regular contributors". SF Squeecast blog. Archived from the original on August 19, 2018. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ "Two Artists, Many Stripes, One Voice: An Interview With S.j. Tucker & Catherynne M. Valente". The Interstitial Arts Foundation. March 31, 2011. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
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