Creator / Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American writer of fantasy, Trope Namer 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:

• The Orphan's Tales
  • In The Night Garden (2006)
  • In the Cities of Coin and Spice (2007)
• Palimpsest (2009)
• Dirge for Prester John
  • The Habitation of the Blessed (2010)
  • The Folded World (2011)
  • The Spindle of Necessity (TBA)
• Deathless (2011)
• Fairyland Series
  • 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)
• Six-Gun Snow White (2013)
• Radiance (2015)
• The Refrigerator Monologues (2017)
• Space Opera (2018)

Other Catherynne M. Valente novels and novellas:

• 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)

Short story collections:

• Ventriloquism (2010)
• The Bread We Eat in Dreams (2013)
• The Melancholy of Mechagirl (2013)
• The Future is Blue (2018)

Miscellaneous projects:

• Invisible Games (2007)

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