Description: This book is in Like New unread condition. It has a Mylar protective cover on the dust jacket and has been stored in a glass protected books case. Non smoking home. Book will ship UPS with Signature required Please reach out if you have any questions Publisher Information Dust jacket illustrations by Alyssa Winans. Volume One, which gathers 300,000 words of her singular fiction, including long-out-of-print tales and 80,000 words never before collected. About the Book: The celebrated author of Fairyland, Space Opera, and much more, Catherynne M. Valente is also known for her stunning prose and captivating worldbuilding. From life on Mars to the zombified streets of Augusta, Maine, she has taken readers on unforgettable journeys for two decades. Subterranean Press is proud to present: The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One, the first comprehensive collection of Valente’s short fiction, soaring through eighteen years of pushing the edges of storytelling. Among her award-winning stories, you’ll find everything from melancholy robot girls to Eurydice and Orpheus; from detectives in Purgatory to time-traveling squirrels to a very different Santa Claus; from the grey coast of Washington to Alice’s Wonderland. Valente’s work is an open, beating heart, ready to welcome you in to its darkness and its light. Limited: 250 signed numbered copies with a different dust jacket than the trade edition, and bound in a different material Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review): “Valente (Space Opera) shows off her versatility in this mind-blowing collection of 45 stories. The standouts are an irreverent take on the Cthulhu Mythos and a thought-provoking look at artificial intelligence… The result is an impressive showcase for a gifted author who never plays it safe.” From Locus: “In a career of less than two decades, Catherynne M. Valente seems to have made an outsized impact on fantasy and SF, despite never quite fitting in to any movement or trend, and never quite getting predictable—except, perhaps, for her unabashed love of language… While Valente’s contagious passion for language seems unabated in these recent works, it also seems more fully under control, as though she’s learned to trust the tale itself—and the best of those tales are true gems.” Table of Contents: Left Ventricle The Consultant The Difference Between Love and Time A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica White Lines on a Green Field The Wolves of Brooklyn Reading Borges in Buenos Aires Days of Flaming Motorcycles One Breath, One Stroke Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time Mouse Koan Right Atrium The Melancholy of Mechagirl The Future Is Blue The Sin-Eater The Sun in Exile Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo The Perfect Host How to Become a Mars Overlord Fade to White Secretario Twenty-Five Facts About Santa Claus In the Future When All’s Well Planet Lion Left Atrium A Great Clerk of Necromancy Urchins, While Swimming L’Espirit D’Escalier The Lily and the Horn The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild Palimpsest The Red Girl The Flame After the Candle The Wedding The Bread We Eat in Dreams The Secret of Being a Cowboy Right Ventricle Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985 A Fall Counts Anywhere A Delicate Architecture Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy Badgirl, the Deadman, and the Wheel of Fortune Down and Out in R’lyeh The Shoot-Out at Burnt Corn Ranch Over the Bride of the World No One Dies in Nowhere The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, Or, the Luminescence of Debauchery Daisy Green Says I Love You Silently and Very Fast What the Dragon Said: A Love Story
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Signed By: Catherynne M. Valente
Book Title: Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One
Signed: Yes
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults
Edition: Limited Edition, First Edition
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Short Stories
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Features: Dust Jacket, Signed, Number
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Topic: Books
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States