Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente 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.


Works of Catherynne M. Valente with their own tropes pages:

The Orphans Tales

  1. In The Night Garden (2006)
  2. In the Cities of Coin and Spice

Palimpsest (2009)

A Dirge for Prester John

  1. The Habitation of the Blessed (2010)
  2. The Folded World (2011)
  3. The Spindle of Necessity (TBA)

Deathless (2011)

Fairyland series

  1. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2011)
  2. The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (2012)
  3. The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (2013)
  4. The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (2015)
  5. The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home (2016)

Six-Gun Snow White (2013)

Radiance (2015)

Other Catherynne M. Valente novels and novellas
  • Myths of Origin: Four Short Novels (2011)
  1. The Labyrinth (2004)
  2. Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams (2005)
  3. The Grass-Cutting Sword (2006)
  4. Under in the Mere (2009)
  • Deathless (2011)
  • Silently and Very Fast (2011)
  • Speak Easy (2015)
  • The Refrigerator Monologues (2017)
  • The Glass Town Game (2017)
  • Space Opera (April 2018)
Short story collections
  • Ventriloquism (2010)
  • The Bread We Eat in Dreams (2013)
  • The Melancholy of Mechagirl (2013)