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} }) </script> </div> </form> </fieldset> <article class="entryArticle content STeditorial"> <header class="entryHeader icon-author"> <h1 class="entryTitle">Valente, Catherynne M </h1> </header><p class='tagLine'>Entry updated 30 September 2024. Tagged: Author, Editor.</p><div class="browsingBtns"> <span> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=valente_catherynne_m'" value="Prev" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=valente_catherynne_m'" value="Next" /> </span> <span> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=valente_catherynne_m'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> </span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=valente_catherynne_m&abc'" ></span> <span><input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=valente_catherynne_m'" ></span> <span style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.open('/gallery.php?link=valente_catherynne_m');"> <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img></span> </div><p style='float:right; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:10px; position: relative; top: 3px;'> <a href='/gallery.php?id=Valente-Myths.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/Valente-Myths.jpg' alt='pic'></a></p> <p>(1979-    ) US editor, fancaster, poet and author, born Bethany Thomas, Valente apparently being her legal name, who won a <a href="/entry/rhysling_award">Rhysling Award</a> for her long poem, "The Seven Devils of Central California" (Summer 2007 <a href="/entry/farragos_wainscot">Farrago's Wainscot</a>); she began to publish prose work of genre interest with "Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire by Anna S Oppenhagen-Petrescu" in <i>By Blood We Live</i> (anth <b>2009</b>) edited by John Joseph <a href="/entry/adams_john_joseph">Adams</a>. She edited <a href="/entry/apex_magazine">Apex Magazine</a> in 2010 and 2011. <i>SF Squeecast</i> gained for her and her colleagues <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a> awards in 2012 and 2013 for best podcast; her shorter prose fictions have won several prizes, including a <a href="/entry/locus_award">Locus Award</a> for "White Lines on a Green Field" (October 2011 <a href="/entry/subterranean">Subterranean</a>). An exemplary early twenty-first century figure whose work ranges over the whole of <a href="/entry/fantastika">Fantastika</a>, though only recently has she written sf, examples being <i>Silently and Very Fast</i> (October-December 2011 <a href="/entry/clarkesworld">Clarkesworld</a>; <b>2011</b>), which won a <a href="/entry/locus">Locus</a> and a <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a> award, and <i>Six-Gun Snow White</i> (<b>2013</b>), which won a <a href="/entry/locus">Locus</a> award. The latter is a <a href="/entry/westerns">Western</a> whose oppressed Native American protagonist [for Snow White see <i>The</i> <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under <b>links</b> below] must craft a life for herself, though caught in the coils of an invidious family.</p> <p>Much of the fantasy over the first decade of her career has been markedly complex and challenging, her first novel, <i>The Labyrinth</i> (<b>2004</b>), proving to be characteristic. Its Theseus-like female protagonist (see <a href="/entry/heroes">Heroes</a>) must plunge through a far more disruptive <a href="/entry/labyrinths">Labyrinth</a> than the one described in the Greek myth, in this case combining aspects of the <a href="/entry/pocket_universe">Pocket Universe</a> and the Portal to other <a href="/entry/dimensions">Dimensions</a>, with hints of the arbitrariness of the typical Wonderland [for Portal and Wonderland see <i>The</i> <a href="/entry/encyclopedia_of_fantasy_the">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a> under <b>links</b> below]. Any elements of the exposed arguments typical of sf are deeply submerged here, as demonstrated in her several series to date: the <b>Orphan's Tales</b> sequence, beginning with <i>In the Night Garden</i> (<b>2006</b>), which won a <a href="/entry/james_tiptree_jr_award">James Tiptree Jr Award</a>; the <b>Fairyland</b> sequence of <a href="/entry/young_adult">Young Adult</a> tales, two titles in the series – <i>The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making</i> (<b>2011</b>) and <i>The Girl Who Soared Above Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two</i> (<b>2013</b>), the first winning an Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (see <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a>), and each winning a <a href="/entry/locus_award">Locus Award</a> – and the <b>Dirge for Prester John</b> sequence beginning with <i>The Habitation of the Blessed</i> (<b>2010</b>).</p> <p>Of more recent interest is <i>Radiance</i> (<b>2015</b>), set in an <a href="/entry/alternate_cosmos">Alternate Cosmos</a> from which our own universe is only briefly glimpsed as part of a sheaf of possibilities. In this cosmos, from the middle of the nineteenth century, the <a href="/entry/solar_system">Solar System</a> – built on a cosily Victorian scale – has been freely available to <i>Homo sapiens</i>; the deliberate disjoins of the narrative (see <a href="/entry/postmodernism_and_sf">Postmodernism and SF</a>) tend to refocus storytelling momentum in the direction of spoof, with elements of sharp <a href="/entry/satire">Satire</a>, particularly of the film industry (see <a href="/entry/cinema">Cinema</a>). A baroque canvas, with <a href="/entry/decadence">Decadent</a> societies proliferating on the <a href="/entry/moon">Moon</a>, <a href="/entry/venus">Venus</a>, <a href="/entry/mars">Mars</a> and throughout the <a href="/entry/outer_planets">Outer Planets</a>, enriches without in any sense, for good or for ill, clarifying the tale. At intervals, sparks of <a href="/entry/equipoise">Equipoise</a> illuminate the worlds touched upon; varyingly, this may be said, excepting her <a href="/entry/young_adult">Young Adult</a> series, of all Valente's work. <i>Space Opera</i> (<b>2018</b>), for instance, is an adroitly baroque <a href="/entry/space_opera">Space Opera</a> spoof with teeth: an old <i>topos</i> – in which <i>Homo sapiens</i> comes before a galactic council to be judged on whether our species is sufficiently civilized to partake in galactic civilization, or indeed be permitted to survive – is transformed into an elaborate "Metagalactic Grand Prix" where humans are judged on the quality of the performance they mount in a vast circus-like venue (see <a href="/entry/music">Music</a>). The protagonist and her band, Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes, rock for all our lives. Valente's ironized and operatic transformations of traditional sf give some hope for old forms can be dressed anew, as befits the century they are written in.</p> <p>"The Future Is Blue" (in <i>Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond</i>, anth <b>2016</b>, ed Jonathan <a href="/entry/strahan_jonathan">Strahan</a>) won the <a href="/entry/theodore_sturgeon_memorial_award">Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award</a> in 2017; it is built into <i>The Past Is Red</i> (coll of two linked novellas; <b>2021</b>), where the protagonist must adapt her early can-do behaviour to the increasing savagery of <a href="/entry/climate_change">Climate Change</a>. The collection <i>The Future Is Blue</i> (coll <b>2018</b>) contains the initial story plus other unconnected tales; <i>The Best of Catherine M Valente: Volume One</i> (coll <b>2023</b>) begins a comprehensive presentation of her shorter work. [JC]</p> <h3 id="chklst">Catherynne Morgan Valente</h3> <p><b>born</b> Seattle, Washington: 5 May 1979</p> <p><b>works</b></p> <p><input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=valente_catherynne_m&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=valente_catherynne_m'"></p> <p><b>series</b></p> <p><b>Orphan's Tales</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=In+the+Night+Garden&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">In the Night Garden</a></em> (New York: Bantam Spectra, <b>2006</b>) [<b>Orphan's Tales</b>: pb/Jon Foster]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=In+the+Cities+of+Coin+and+Spice&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">In the Cities of Coin and Spice</a></em> (New York: Bantam Spectra, <b>2007</b>) [<b>Orphan's Tales</b>: pb/Michael Komarck]</li> </ul> <p><b>Fairyland</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Girl+Who+Circumnavigated+Fairyland+in+a+Ship&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making</a></em> (New York: Feiwel and Friends, <b>2011</b>) [<b>Fairyland</b>: illus/hb/Ana Juan]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Girl+Who+Ruled+Fairyland+-+For+a+Little+While&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland – For a Little While</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2011</b>) [story: ebook: first appeared 27 July <a href="/entry/tor_com">Tor.com</a>: <b>Fairyland</b>: na/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Girl+Who+Fell+Beneath+Fairyland+and+Led+the&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There</a></em> (New York: Feiwel and Friends, <b>2012</b>) [<b>Fairyland</b>: illus/hb/Ana Juan]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Girl+Who+Soared+Above+Fairyland+and+Cut+the&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Girl Who Soared Above Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two</a></em> (New York: Feiwel and Friends, <b>2013</b>) [<b>Fairyland</b>: illus/hb/Ana Juan]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Boy+Who+Lost+Fairyland&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Boy Who Lost Fairyland</a></em> (New York: Feiwel and Friends, <b>2015</b>) [<b>Fairyland</b>: illus/hb/Ana Juan]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Girl+Who+Raced+Fairyland+All+the+Way+Home&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home</a></em> (New York: Feiwel and Friends, <b>2016</b>) [<b>Fairyland</b>: illus/hb/Ana Juan]</li> </ul> <p><b>A Dirge for Prester John</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Habitation+of+the+Blessed&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Habitation of the Blessed</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, <b>2010</b>) [<b>Dirge for Prester John</b>: pb/Rebecca Guay]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Folded+World&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Folded World</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, <b>2011</b>) [<b>Dirge for Prester John</b>: pb/Rebecca Guay]</li> </ul> <p><b>Space Opera</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Space+Opera&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Space Opera</a></em> (New York: Simon and Schuster/Saga, <b>2018</b>) [<b>Space Opera</b>: hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Space+Oddity&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Space Oddity</a></em> (New York: Simon and Schuster/Saga, <b>2024</b>) [<b>Space Opera</b>: hb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>individual titles</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Labyrinth&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Labyrinth</a></em> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, <b>2004</b>) [hb/Aurélien Police]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Yume+No+Han+The+Book+of+Dreams&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Yume No Han: The Book of Dreams</a></em> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, <b>2004</b>) [hb/Connie Toebe]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Grass-Cutting+Sword&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Grass-Cutting Sword</a></em> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, <b>2006</b>) [hb/Aria Nadii]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Under+in+the+Mere&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Under in the Mere</a></em> (St Paul, Minnesota: Rabid Transit Press, <b>2009</b>) [pb/James A Owen and Jeremy Owen] <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Myths+of+Origin+Four+Short+Novels&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Myths of Origin: Four Short Novels</a></em> (Stirling, New Jersey: Wyrm Publishing, <b>2011</b>) [omni of the above four: pb/Jeffrey Smith]</li> </ul></li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Palimpsest&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Palimpsest</a></em> (New York: Bantam Spectra, <b>2009</b>) [pb/Carlos Beltran]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Deathless&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Deathless</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2011</b>) [hb/Beth White]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Radiance&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Radiance</a></em> (New York: Tor, <b>2015</b>) [hb/Will <a href="/entry/staehle_will">Staehle</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Glass+Town+Game&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Glass Town Game</a></em> (New York: Simon and Schuster/McElderry, <b>2017</b>) [hb/Rebecca Green]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Annihilation&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Annihilation</a></em> (New York: Titan Books, <b>2018</b>) [tie to the <a href="/entry/shared_worlds">Shared World</a> of the game <em>Mass Effect: Andromeda</em> (see <a href="/entry/mass_effect">Mass Effect</a>): pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+End&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The End</a></em> (New York: Del Rey, <b>2019</b>) [in the <a href="/entry/shared_worlds">Shared World</a> <b>Minecraft Universe</b> series: hb/M S Corley]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Past+Is+Red&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Past Is Red</a></em> (New York: Tor.com, <b>2021</b>) [hb/John Hendrix]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Comfort+Me+With+Apples&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Comfort Me With Apples</a></em> (New York: Tor.com, <b>2021</b>) [hb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Osmo+Unknown+and+the+Eightpenny+Woods&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods</a></em> (New York: Simon and Schuster/Margaret K McElderry Books, <b>2022</b>) [hb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>collections and stories</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Ghosts+of+Gunkanjima&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Ghosts of Gunkanjima</a></em> (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Papaveria Press, <b>2005</b>) [story: chap: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Oracles+A+Pilgrimage&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Oracles: A Pilgrimage</a></em> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, <b>2005</b>) [coll: chap: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Apocrypha&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Apocrypha</a></em> (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, <b>2005</b>) [poetry: coll: pb/]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Guide+to+Folktales+in+Fragile+Dialects&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects</a></em> (Winnetka, California: Norilana Books/Curiosities, <b>2008</b>) [coll: pb/Connie Toebe]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Ventriloquism&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Ventriloquism</a></em> (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, <b>2010</b>) [coll: hb/Rima Staines]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Silently+and+Very+Fast&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Silently and Very Fast</a></em> (Baltimore, Maryland: WSFA Press, <b>2011</b>) [novella: hb/Julie Dillon]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Six-Gun+Snow+White&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Six-Gun Snow White</a></em> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, <b>2013</b>) [novella: hb/Charles <a href="/entry/vess_charles">Vess</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Melancholy+of+Mechagirl&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Melancholy of Mechagirl</a></em> (San Francisco, California: Viz Media/Haikasoru, <b>2013</b>) [coll: pb/Yuko Shimizu]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Speak+Easy&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Speak Easy</a></em> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, <b>2015</b>) [coll: illus/hb/Michael William <a href="/entry/kaluta_michael_w">Kaluta</a>]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Bread+We+Eat+in+Dreams&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Bread We Eat in Dreams</a></em> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, <b>2015</b>) [coll: illus/hb/Kathleen Jennings]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Refrigerator+Monologues&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Refrigerator Monologues</a></em> (New York: Simon and Schuster/Saga, <b>2017</b>) with Annie Wu [coll: illus/hb/Annie Wu]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Future+Is+Blue&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Future Is Blue</a></em> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, <b>2018</b>) [coll: hb/Galen Dara]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Best+of+Catherine+M+Valente+Volume+One&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Best of Catherine M Valente: Volume One</a></em> (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, <b>2023</b>) [coll: hb/Alyssa Winans]</li> </ul> <p><b>nonfiction</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Indistinguishable+from+Magic&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Indistinguishable from Magic</a></em> (New Orleans, Louisiana: Mad Norwegian Press, <b>2014</b>) [nonfiction: coll: pb/]</li> </ul> <p><b>works as editor</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Book+of+Apex+Volume+3+of+Apex+Magazine&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Book of Apex: Volume 3 of Apex Magazine</a></em> (Lexington, Kentucky: Apex Publications, <b>2012</b>) [anth: stories from <a href="/entry/apex_magazine">Apex Magazine</a>: pb/Justin Stewart]</li> <li><em><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Nebula+Awards+Showcase+55+Outstanding+Science&field-author=Valente+Catherynne+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Nebula Awards Showcase 55: Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy</a></em> (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: SFWA, Inc, <b>2021</b>) [anth: <a href="/entry/nebula_anthologies">Nebula Anthologies</a>: <b>Nebula Awards</b>: pb/Lauren Rave Snow]</li> </ul> <p><b>links</b></p> <ul class="x"> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/">Catherynne M Valente</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?28314">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/"><em>The Encyclopedia of Fantasy</em></a>: <a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/portals">Portals</a>; <a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/snow_white">Snow White</a>; <a target="_blank" 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