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Catherynne M Valente


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Catherynne M. Valente is the acclaimed author of The Glass Town Game, and a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction novels, short stories, and poetry. She has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, and has won the Locus and Andre Norton award. She lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, one enormous cat, a less enormous cat, six chickens, a red accordion, an uncompleted master's degree, a roomful of yarn, a spinning wheel with ulterior motives, a cupboard of jam and pickles, a bookshelf full of folktales, an industrial torch, and an Oxford English Dictionary.
 

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Science Fiction, Children's Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
May 2024

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Space Oddity
(Space Opera, book 2)
Novels
   The Labyrinth (2006)
   The Grass-Cutting Sword (2006)
   Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams (2006)
   Palimpsest (2009)
   Deathless (2011)
   The Bread We Eat in Dreams (2013)
   Radiance (2015)
   The Glass Town Game (2017)
   Matryoshka (2019)
   The Past Is Red (2021)
   Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods (2022)
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Collections
   Oracles (poems) (2005)
   Apocrypha (poems) (2005)
   A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects (poems) (2008)
   Ventriloquism (2010)
   This Is My Letter To The World (2010)
   Worlds of Fantasy (2011) (with others)
   Six-Gun Snow White (2013)
   The Melancholy of Mechagirl (2013)
   Indistinguishable from Magic (2014)
   The Bestiary (2016) (with others)
   The Refrigerator Monologues (2017)
   The Future Is Blue (2018)
   Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021 (2022) (with others)
   The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Under in the Mere (2009)
   Silently and Very Fast (2011)
   Speak Easy (2015)
   L'Espirit de L'Escalier (2021)
   Comfort Me With Apples (2021)
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Anthologies edited
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Picture Books show
 
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Catherynne M Valente recommends
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The Crane Husband (2023)
Kelly Barnhill
"The incomparable Barnhill delivers this sly, confrontational retelling with masterful ease and crystalline prose, revealing, feather by feather, the very real generational threat that has always burned at the core of this ancient story."
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Saint Death's Daughter (2022)
(Saint Death, book 1)
C S E Cooney
"C. S. E. Cooney is one of the most moving, daring, and plainly beautiful voices to come out of recent fantasy. She's a powerhouse."
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Road of Bones (2022)
Christopher Golden
"I don't know how else to say it. This book is scary as f***. Do not read alone in the dark."

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Anthologies containing stories by Catherynne M Valente
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 (2023)
(Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, book 9)
edited by
John Joseph Adams and R F Kuang
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The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 7 (2023)
(Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, book 7)
edited by
Allan Kaster
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 (2022)
(Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, book 8)
edited by
Rebecca Roanhorse

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Awards
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Best Book winner (2006) : In the Night Garden
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (2007) : In the Night Garden
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book winner (2008) : In the Cities of Coin and Spice
Andre Norton Award Best Book winner (2010) : The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Hugo Best Novel nominee (2010) : Palimpsest
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2010) : Palimpsest
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2012) : Deathless
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Children/Young Adult Fiction nominee (2012) : The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Hugo Best Book nominee (2019) : Space Opera
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2019) : Space Opera


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