Radiance
$37.03
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2016
Summary
Severin Unck is the headstrong young daughter of a world-famous film director. She has inherited her father’s love of the big screen but not his exuberant gothic style of filmmaking. Instead, Severin makes documentaries, artful and passionate and even rather brave – for she is a realist in a fantastic alternate universe, in which Hollywood occupies the moon, Mars is rife with lawless saloons, and the solar system contains all manner of creatures, cults and colonies.
For Severin’s late…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472115157 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472115155 |
| Author: | Catherynne M. Valente |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 126mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Tom Thorne Novels |
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The long-awaited first science fiction novel - though it’s really more of a cosmic fantasy - from Tiptree winner Valente is a masterpiece of storytelling, seductive in prose and ambitious in scope … This will captivate readers with all the drama and wonder that Valente’s strange and wonderful golden age Hollywood demands. - Publishers Weekly
Valente’s descriptions are lush and striking, her worlds reveling in the dreamiest of nods to classic science fiction, where alien planets are full of life and easily reachable.A heady, strange, and beautifully written novel about how stories give form to worlds. - KirkusAn intriguing examination of how we piece together our personal narratives - Washington PostRadiance is a sleek rocket ship of a novel, swaddled in Art Deco decadence and glossy with an unsettling alt-history patina. - New York TimesAbout The Author
Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
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