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[[PenName Catherynne M. Valente]] (born May 5, 1979) is an American writer of {{fantasy}}, TropeNamer and one of the pioneers of the {{Mythpunk}} subgenre of speculative fiction. For a list of tropes common in Valente's fiction, visit the Mythpunk page.

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!! Works of Catherynne M. Valente with their own tropes pages:
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* ''Literature/TheOrphansTales''
** ''In The Night Garden'' (2006)
** ''In the Cities of Coin and Spice'' (2007)
* ''Literature/{{Palimpsest}}'' (2009)
* ''Literature/DirgeForPresterJohn''
** ''The Habitation of the Blessed'' (2010)
** ''The Folded World'' (2011)
** ''The Spindle of Necessity'' (TBA)
* ''Literature/{{Deathless}}'' (2011)
* ''Fairyland Series''
** ''[[Literature/TheGirlWhoCircumnavigatedFairylandInAShipOfHerOwnMaking The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making]]'' (2011)
** ''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)
* ''Literature/SixGunSnowWhite'' (2013)
* ''Literature/{{Radiance}}'' (2015)
* ''Literature/TheRefrigeratorMonologues'' (2017)
* ''Literature/SpaceOpera'' (2018)
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!! Other Catherynne M. Valente novels and novellas:
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* ''Myths of Origin: Four Short Novels'' (2011) a collection of--
** ''The Labyrinth'' (2004)
** ''Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams'' (2005)
** ''The Grass-Cutting Sword'' (2006)
** ''Under in the Mere'' (2009)
* ''Silently and Very Fast'' (2011)
* ''Speak Easy'' (2015)
* ''The Glass Town Game'' (2017)
* ''The Past is Red'' (2021)
* ''Comfort Me with Apples'' (2021)
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!! Short story collections:
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* ''Ventriloquism'' (2010)
* ''The Bread We Eat in Dreams'' (2013)
* ''The Melancholy of Mechagirl'' (2013)
* ''The Future is Blue'' (2018)
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!! Miscellaneous projects:
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* ''Blog/InvisibleGames'' (2007)
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