Creator / Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is a 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)

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