Genevieve Valentine

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Genevieve Valentine (born July 1, 1981 ) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer .

Life

Valentine comes from a military family and accordingly often changed her place of residence in her childhood. She grew up in California , Texas , Illinois, and Virginia and studied at George Mason University in Washington, DC , where she graduated in English. After completing her studies, she worked in various professions, most recently as an assistant manager.

In 2007 her first short story 29 Union Leaders Can't Be Wrong appeared in SF magazine Strange Horizons . Since then she has published over 70 short stories and four novels. Her debut Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti , a steampunk fantasy novel about a circus whose artists are empowered to perform unusual through steel endoskeletons , won the William L. Crawford Fantasy Award for the Nebula Award as best novel nominated and came in 2nd place in the First Novel category at the Locus Awards .

In addition to her fiction work, she is a prolific blogger and author of numerous film reviews, in particular, she is passionate about seeing and reviewing bad films. Her essays and reviews have appeared in NPR.org , The AV Club , Strange Horizons , io9.com , LA Review of Books , Vice , Vox , The Atlantic, and the New York Times .

For DC Comics , Valentine wrote scripts for Catwoman , Batman and Robin Eternal and for Dynamite Entertainment several episodes of the comic book adaptation of Xena: Warrior Princess .

bibliography

Novels

  • Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti (2011)
  • The Girls at the Kingfisher Club (2014)
  • Persona (2015)
  • Icon (2016)

Short stories

  • 29 Union Leaders Can't Be Wrong (2007)
  • White Stone (2009)
  • Carthago Delenda Est (2009)
  • Bespoke (2009)
  • Advection (2009)
  • Is This Your Day to Join the Revolution? (2009)
  • Light on the Water (2009)
  • Last Drink Bird Head (2009)
  • A Brief Investigation of the Process of Decay (2009)
  • Wondrous Days (2009)
  • Carte Blanche (2010)
  • A Garden in Bloom (2010)
  • The Dire Wolf (2010)
  • Take Four (2010)
  • The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball (2010)
  • And the Next, and the Next (2010)
  • And She Shall Be Crowned According to Her Station (2010)
  • Seeing (2010)
  • So Deep That the Bottom Could Not Be Seen (2010)
  • Bread and Circuses (2010)
  • Demons, Your Body, and You (2011)
  • The Sandal Bride (2011)
  • Things to Know About Being Dead (2011)
  • She Drives the Men to Crimes of Passion! (2011)
  • Study, for Solo Piano (2011)
  • The Finest Spectacle Anywhere (2011)
  • Semiramis (2011)
  • And in Their Glad Rags (2011)
  • The Nearest Thing (2011)
  • Souvenir (2011)
  • Keep Calm and Carillon (2011)
  • Bufonidae (2011)
  • A Game of Mars (2012)
  • The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring (2012)
  • Aurum (2012)
  • The Last Run of the Coppelia (2012)
  • Armless Maidens of the American West (2012)
  • A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones (2012)
  • Good Fences (2012)
  • The Segment (2012)
  • The Advocate (2013)
  • Abyssus Abyssum Invocat (2013)
  • Captain Justice Saves the Day (2013)
  • 86, 87, 88, 89 (2013)
  • From the Catalog of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire) (2013)
  • Terrain (2013)
  • The Lenten Rose (2013)
  • A Dweller in Amenty (2014)
  • Intertitles: A Thing That Lives on Tears: Goodness and Clarice Starling (2014)
  • Eighty Miles an Hour All the Way to Paradise (2014)
  • The Insects of Love (2014)
  • Prima Nocta Detective Agency Needs You (2014)
  • Small Medicine (2014)
  • The Lion Cage (2014)
  • Aberration (2014)
  • Dream Houses (2014)
  • A Story You Know the Ending To (2015)
  • Blood, Ash, Braids (2015)
  • Persona (excerpt) (2015)
  • Visit Lovely Cornwall on the Western Railway Line (2015)
  • This Evening's Performance (2015)
  • <3 / </ 3 (2015)
  • Given the Advantage of the Blade (2015)
  • (dis.) (2015)
  • La beauté sans vertu (2016)
  • Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home (2016)
  • Familiaris (2016)
  • Overburden (2017)
  • Intro to Prom (2017)
  • A Comfort, One Way (2017)
  • Abandonware (2018)

literature

Web links

Commons : Genevieve Valentine  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genevieve Valentine: Behind the Curtain. In: Locus # 617 (June 2012, excerpts , accessed December 25, 2018).
  2. ↑ Geoffrey H. Goodwin: Interview with Genevieve Valente , April 2012, accessed December 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ Genevieve Valentine - Biography , accessed December 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Valentine, Genevieve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fantasy and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1981