Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente, 2012

Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979 in Seattle as Bethany Thomas ) is an American writer , poet and literary critic , who mainly writes fantastic literature . Her novels have won James Tiptree , Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards . Her short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine and in the World Fantasy Award- winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities . Her reviews have appeared under the name Bethany L. Thomas in the International Journal of the Humanities and numerous volumes of essays .

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Catherynne M. Valente's novels were nominated for Hugo , World Fantasy and Locus Awards. Her book Palimpsest (2009) won the Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her two-volume work The Orphan's Tales won the Mythopoeic Award 2008 . The first volume, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden , was also honored with the James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2006 and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award 2007. In 2012, Valentes ’work received 3 Locus Awards : Best Novelette ( White Lines on a Green Field) , Best Novella ( Silently and Very Fast ) and Best YA Novel ( The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making ).

Her children's book The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making debuted at number eight on the New York Times bestseller list. The follow-up, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There , reached number five on Time Magazine's Best Fiction of 2012 list .

In 2009 she donated her archive to the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University .

She is a regular participant in the multiple Hugo Award-winning podcast SF Squeecast.

Multimedia and Mythpunk

Valente regularly goes on reading tours inside and outside the United States. Occasionally she performs with the singer-songwriter SJ Tucker, who has also released albums based on Valentes work. Together they go on reading / concert tours across North America , often including dancers, aerialists , art drives for jewelry and paintings based on the novels, and other performances.

The online artist Valente is active in the crowdfunding movement. Her novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making was the first crowdfunded book to win a major literary award before it was traditionally published.

In a blog post in 2006, Valente coined the term mythpunk as a joking description of the folklore- based fantasy using postmodern techniques that she and other authors write.

Works (selection)

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.
• Silently and Very Fast. 2011.
• Six-Gun Snow White. 2013.
• Matryoshka. 2015.
• Radiance. 2015.
• Speak Easy. 2015.

The Orphan's Tales

• The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1). 2006.
  • Book of the steppe
  • Book of the Sea
• The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (vol. 2). 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 (Pentalogy) Published by Feiwel & Friends:

• The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While. 2001.
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. 2011; German: The wondrous story of September, who built a ship and sailed around the fairy land , translated by Sylke Hachmeister. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-21632-9 .
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There. 2012; German: The wondrous story of September that fell under the fairy land and danced with the shadows, translated by Sylke Hachmeister. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-499-21633-6 .
• 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.

The title The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making was first mentioned as a fictional children's book in Palimpsest . In 2009 Valente started a crowdfunding campaign to write this book as an online novel for children.

• Space Opera . Saga Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4814-9749-7 .
  • Space opera , FISCHER Tor, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-596-70444-6 , translator Kirsten Borchardt
• Mass Effect: Andromeda - Annihilation , Titan Books, 2018, ISBN 978-1-7856-5158-8
  • Mass Effect: Andromeda - Destruction translated by Andreas Kasprzak and Tobias Toneguzzo, Panini Verlag , February 2019, ISBN 978-3-8332-3618-1

Poems

• Music of a Proto-Suicide. 2004.
• Apocrypha. 2005.
• Oracles: A Pilgrimage. 2006.
• The Descent of Inanna. 2006.
• A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects. 2008.

Non-fiction

• Introduction to Jane Eyre (Illustrated). 2007.
• "Regeneration X" in Chicks Dig Time Lords. 2010.
• Indistinguishable from Magic. 2014.

Short stories

• "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 Gray 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. Edited by Ekaterina Sedia. 2008.
• "The Harpooner at the Bottom of the World" Spectra Pulse Magazine. 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 Magazine. 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 , anthology with 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.

Awards

Year	price	Excellent work
2006	James Tiptree, Jr. Award	The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1)
2007	storySouth Million Writers Award	Urchins, While Swimming , Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 3
2007	World Fantasy Award (nomination for Best Novel)	The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (vol. 1)
2008	Rhysling Award (Long Poems)	The Seven Devils of Central California , Farrago's Wainscot Summer 2007
2008	Mythopoeic Award (adults)	The Orphan's Tales (Series)
2009	World Fantasy Award (nomination for Best Short Story)	A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica , Clarkesworld Magazine (May 2008)
2009	Andre Norton Award	The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2010	CultureGeek Readers' Choice Award (Best Web Fiction of the 21st Century)	The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2010	Hugo Award for Best Novel (nomination)	palimpsest
2010	Locus Award (nomination)	palimpsest
2010	Lambda Literary Award	palimpsest
2012	Hugo Award for Best Fancast	SF Squeecast (with Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, and Elizabeth Bear)
2012	Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nomination)	"Fade to White"
2012	Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction Books	The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
2012	Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book	The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2014	Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book	The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
2017	Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for SF short fiction	The future is blue

Web links

• Literature by and about Catherynne M. Valente in the catalog of the German National Library
• Catherynne M. Valente in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Catherynne M. Valente at Open Library
• Catherynne M. Valente in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Official website
• Blog
• 2010 Interview in the podcast Geek's Guide to the Galaxy
• Catherynne M. Valente in the Library of Congress

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lynne M. Thomas: Hugos, Catherynne Valente Archives, and CLIR Reports . In: Confessions of a Curator . March 20, 2009. Archived from the original on November 13, 2012. Retrieved on March 21, 2009.
2. ↑ TWO ARTISTS, MANY STRIPES, ONE VOICE: AN INTERVIEW WITH SJ TUCKER & CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE . March 31, 2011. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 6, 2015. 
3. ↑ 2010 Nebula Awards . 2010. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
4. ^ Nebula Awards Results . May 15, 2010. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
5. ↑ The Big Idea: Catherynne M. Valente . May 12, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
6. ↑ A Rose in Twelve Names . March 28, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
7. ↑ Announcing SPEAK EASY, a New Novella by Catherynne M. Valente . January 4th, 2015. Archived from the original on April 11th, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 6, 2015. 
8. ^ Valente, Catherynne M .: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While by Catherynne M. Valente . Tor.com . July 27, 2011. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
9. ^ Catherynne M. Valente: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - About This Book . Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved June 16, 2009.
10. ↑ 2006 Winners . Retrieved October 20, 2015.
11. ↑ story south Million Writers Award . Retrieved October 20, 2015.
12. ^ World Fantasy Convention: Award Winners and Nominees . 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
13. ^ Mythopoeic Awards - 2008 - Mythopoeic Society ( en-US ). Retrieved October 20, 2015.
14. ↑ World Fantasy Awards - Complete Listing . Retrieved October 20, 2015.
15. ↑ sfadb: Andre Norton Award 2010 . Retrieved October 20, 2015.
16. ↑ Nebula Awards Interview: Catherynne M. Valente - SFWA ( en-US ) Retrieved October 20, 2015.
17. ↑ ^{a b c} sfadb: Catherynne M. Valente Awards . Retrieved October 20, 2015.
18. ^ The Hugo Awards: 2012 Hugo Award Winners from September 2, 2012, accessed on September 3, 2012.
19. ^ Congratulations to the 2012 Nebula Award Winners . Goal. May 18, 2013. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
20. ↑ Top 10 Fiction Books . Time Magazine. December 4, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
21. ↑ 2012 Locus Award Winners . June 16, 2012. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 6, 2015. 
22. ^ Locus Young Adult Award . Retrieved April 6, 2015.