Catherynne M. Valente
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"Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truthand she dared to love the world. The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those...
3) Radiance
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"Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn...
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"Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Everything is perfect. It's just that he's away so much. So often. He works so hard. She misses him. And he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband and everything is perfect. But sometimes Sophia wonders about things. Strange things. Dark things. The look on her husband's...
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This final book in the Fairyland series finds September accidentally crowned the Queen of Fairyland. But there are others who believe they have a fair and good claim on the throne, so there is a Royal Race--whoever wins will seize the crown. Along the way, beloved characters including hte Wyvverary, A-Through-L, the boy Saturday, the changelings Hawthorn and Tamburlaine, the wombat Blunderbuss, and the gramophone Scratch are caught up in the madness....
6) Space opera
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"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's teeth, if indeed one has skin. Or teeth. Something to...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who's ever been "refrigerated": comic book women who are killed, raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero's storyline will progress. In an entirely new and original superhero universe, Valente explores these...
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This original short story tells the tale of how a girl named Mallow defeated King Goldmouth with the help of the Red Wind, Mr. Map, and many fairyland friends new and old-from Catherynne M. Valente, author of the children's fantasy sensation The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
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Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy, selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of AmericaThe latest volume of the prestigious anthology series, published annually across six decades! The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published yearly since 1966, reprinting winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). This year's editor is New York...
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Septembre repartira-t-elle en Féérie ? Oui mais non...
Septembre rêve de repartir en Féérie. Car rien n'a changé depuis son retour : son père est toujours à la guerre en Europe, sa mère doit travailler de longues journées à l'usine et personne n'est venu la chercher de toute l'année pour l'emmener en Féérie.
Jusqu'à ce jour o, couchée dans un champ, une barque voguant sur les herbes la dépasse. Lancée à sa poursuite, elle trébuche...
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Pour les amoureux du Pays des Merveilles, de Narnia, d'Oz et encore d'autres...
Septembre est une jeune fille qui aspire à l'aventure. Quand elle est invitée en Féérie par le Vent Vert et le Léopard des Petites Brises, bien sûr, elle accepte. Qui ne le ferait pas à douze ans ? Mais Féérie est dans la tourmente, sous le règne écrasant d'une Marquise maléfique.
Cheminant en compagnie d'un vouivre amoureux des livres et d'un étrange garçon...
14) Annihilation
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An official tie-in to the hit video game Mass Effect: Andromeda, written by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente. The Quarian ark Keelah Si'yah sails toward the Andromeda galaxy, carrying 20,000 colonists from sundry races including the drell, the elcor, and the batarians. Thirty years from their destination, a routine check reveals drell lying dead in their pods, and a deadly pathogen on board. Soon, the disease...
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A girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, readers will be enchanted by this story at once familiar and entirely new.
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Mit einem süßen Hündchen spielen und darauf warten, dass die Mutter aus der Fabrik heimkommt - das reicht der zwölfjährigen September nicht. Als der Grüne Wind an ihr Fenster kommt, stürzt sie sich mit ihm ins Abenteuer und reitet auf der Leopardin der leichten Lüfte ins Feenland. Dort wird sie gebraucht: Die grausame Marquess, nicht älter als September selbst, verlangt, dass ihr ein magisches Schwert aus dem Gespinstwald gebracht wird -...
17) Space Opera
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Vor knapp einem Jahrhundert hat sich die Galaxis entzweit - ein Krieg löschte beinahe sämtliches Leben aus. In der Folge erfand man eine gemeinschaftsbildende Tradition: Etwas Schönes und Unterhaltsames, um den Frieden, die Liebe und das Leben zu feiern. Und so wurde der metagalaktische Grand Prix geboren, in dem alle empfindungsfähigen Zivilisationen friedlich gegeneinander antreten. Seitdem muss jede neue Spezies, die Mitglied der kosmischen...
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A new, original adventure of the Dark Knight, as a terrifying adversary enacts a bold plan to bring Gotham City to its knees.
Batman: The Blind Cut follows the Caped Crusader and Zatanna as they join forces against a terrifying adversary who enacts a bold plan to bring Gotham City to its knees.
Written by K Arsenalt Rivera, Martin Cahill, and Catherynne M. Valente. Voiced by Dave Fennoy and Natalie Naudus.
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