New Releases by Catherynne M. Valente

Return to the greatest contest in the galaxy in the sequel to the hilarious USA TODAY bestseller Space Opera from New York Times bestselling author and finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Ursula K. Le Guin awards. The Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past returns and the fate of the Earth is once again threatened. The civilizations opposed to humanity have been plotting and want to take down the upstarts. Can humanity rise again in this sequel to the beloved Hugou00ad Award–nominated national bestselling Space Opera by New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente?

The September/October 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, Grace P. Fong, Kristina Ten, Sarah Monette, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Jeannette Ng, AnaMaria Curtis, and Jenn Reese. Essays by Una McCormack, Christopher J. Garcia, Marissa Lingen, and Riley Silverman, poetry by Ali Trotta, Tiffany Morris, Ai Jiang, and Emily Jiang, interviews with Sarah Monette and Eugenia Triantafyllou by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Grace P. Fong, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

Un thriller psicologico inquietante e coinvolgente che ribalterà ogni sicurezza Sophia vive insieme al marito nel lussuoso complesso di Arcadia Gardens, una comunità isolata da tutto. Perfette sono le sfavillanti case dotate di sofisticati sistemi di sicurezza, perfetto è il vicinato e perfetta è anche la vita di Sophia. Suo marito è dolce e premuroso, e lei sente che sono fatti per stare insieme. Certo, il suo lavoro lo tiene lontano da casa un po’ troppo spesso, ma è un piccolo prezzo da pagare per una vita così impeccabile. Eppure, pian piano dei dubbi si insinuano nell’idillio di Sophia. Il seminterrato chiuso a chiave è la prima cosa a metterla in allarme: perché le è stato categoricamente proibito di scendere laggiù? Perché a volte suo marito torna a casa con uno sguardo strano? E perché, quando parla con i vicini, questi sono schivi e sembrano non sostenere il suo sguardo? Presto quelle che sembravano piccole crepe si allargano fino a diventare una voragine che inghiotte la scatola d’oro in cui viveva Sophia. Quale segreto nasconde suo marito? E cosa c’è dietro il lusso e l’apparente tranquillità che ammantano Arcadia Gardens? «Un vero gioiello. Intrighi e misteri inquietanti tengono il lettore col fiato sospeso.» Publishers Weekly Catherynne M. Valente è un’autrice bestseller del «New York Times». Ha scritto decine di libri tra romanzi e raccolte di poesie, e vinto numerosi premi nell’ambito della narrativa fantastica, tra cui più volte il prestigioso Locus Award. È stata finalista del premio Nebula e del World Fantasy Award. Vive su un’isola al largo delle coste del Maine.

The November/December 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Samantha Mills, Vivian Shaw, Matthew Olivas, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Iori Kusano, Anya Ow, and Emily Y. Teng. Reprint fiction by Catherynne M. Valente. Essays by Izzy Wasserstein, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Jennings, and Karen Heuler, poetry by Eshqin Ahmad, Ewen Ma, May Chong, Taiwo Hassan, and Ai Jiang, interviews with Vivian Shaw and Iori Kusano by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Maxine Vee, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Meg Elison. About Uncanny Magazine Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, & 2022 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, Meg Elison, Chimedum Ohaegbu, and Monte Lin, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

Horror''s favorite authors throw open the doors to the Horadric Library, inviting Diablo fans a glimpse into the terrors that lurk beneath the world of Sanctuary. . . . While the Eternal Conflict rages forever onward, horror and superstition of a purely Sanctuary variety still prey on the hearts of the people. In a time long since forgotten, the Horadric Order was tasked with recording local legends, cautionary tales, and stories of the most twisted horror, in the hope that some innocents might be saved by their knowledge. Now, the vaults are open. Direct from the Diablo development team and horror''s preeminent minds comes Tales from the Horadric Library, a short story collection exploring the darkest corners of Sanctuary, and the evils that dwell there. This beautiful deluxe book has original artwork and metallic ink on its illuminated pages.

Explore the world of Minecraft inside and out with this boxed set collecting three official novels: The Crash, The Lost Journals, and The End! Minecraft: The Crash When Bianca and her best friend Lonnie are in a terrible accident, she''s hospitalized and faced with questions she''s not equipped to answer. She chooses instead to try a new virtual reality version of Minecraft that gives her control over a world at the very moment she thought she''d lost it. As she plays, she realizes that Lonnie is somewhere in here too. She encounters Esme and Anton, two kids who are also playing on the hospital server, and teams up with them to play through to the End—and hopefully to find Lonnie and bring him back to reality. Minecraft: The Lost Journals Allison and Max must team up to find his missing uncle Nicholas. Using the journal his beloved uncle left behind as a guide, the duo hurtle headlong into a treacherous and unknown landscape called the Nether. There, they meet a strange girl named Freya and her woefully unheroic wolf, Bunny Biter, who agree to help them in their quest. The group must take on dangerous new foes and unravel the cryptic journal to find Nicholas and reunite this fractured family. Minecraft: The End For as long as they can remember, the twin endermen Fin and Mo have lived in the mysterious land of the End. They know everything there is to know about their world—or so they think until the strangers from another dimension arrive. The invaders are called humans, and they’ve come to steal artifacts and slay the ender dragon. Caught off guard, the twins are trapped in the middle of a war between the endermen and the humans, with the future of their home at stake.

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. TM & © DC Comics. (s20)

El 21 de mayo de 1980, Star Wars se volvió una verdadera saga con el lanzamiento de El Imperio Contraataca. Para honrar el cuadragésimo aniversario, cuarenta narradores recrean una escena icónica de la película a través de los ojos de un personaje secundario, desde héroes y villanos, hasta droides y criaturas de la galaxia. Desde otro punto de vista. El Imperio Contraataca reúne las contribuciones de autores de bestsellers y artistas que han marcado tendencias y son voces de la historia literaria de Star Wars: • AUSTIN WALKER explora la improbable asociación de un cazarrecompensas dengario y un IG-88 mientras persiguen a Han Solo. • HANK GREEN describe la vida de un naturalista al cuidado de tauntauns en el planeta helado de Hoth. • TRACY DEONN trata las oscuras profundidades de la cueva de Dagobah, donde Luke se enfrenta a una visión aterradora. • MARTHA WELLS revela el mundo de los clanes ugnaught que habitan en las profundidades de la Ciudad Nube. • MARK OSHIRO cuenta de nuevo el trágico relato de dolor y supervivencia de los wampas. • SETH DICKINSON se cuestiona sobre el costo de servir a un imperio despiadado mientras se encuentra en el puente de mando de una nave imperial rumbo su perdición. Además, muchos otros relatos hilarantes, angustiosos o sorprendentes de Tom Angleberger, Sarwat Chadda, S. A. Chakraborty, Mike Chen, Adam Christopher, Katie Cook, Zoraida Córdova, Delilah S. Dawson, Alexander Freed, Jason Fry, Christie Golden, Rob Hart, Lydia Kang, Michael Kogge, R. F. Kuang, C. B. Lee, Mackenzi Lee, John Jackson Miller, Michael Moreci, Daniel José Older, Amy Ratcliffe, Beth Revis, Lilliam Rivera, Cavan Scott, Emily Skrutskie, Karen Strong, Anne Toole, Catherynne M. Valente, Django Wexler, Kiersten White, Gary Whitta, Brittany N. Williams, Charles Yu, Jim Zub.

Even time travel can’t unravel love Time-travel is a way for writers to play with history and imagine different futures – for better, or worse. When romance is thrown into the mix, time-travel becomes a passionate tool, or heart-breaking weapon. A time agent in the 22nd century puts their whole mission at risk when they fall in love with the wrong person. No matter which part of history a man visits, he cannot not escape his ex. A woman is desperately in love with the time-space continuum, but it doesn’t love her back. As time passes and falls apart, a time-traveller must say goodbye to their soulmate. With stories from best-selling and award-winning authors such as Seanan McGuire, Alix E. Harrow and Nina Allan, this anthology gives a taste for the rich treasure trove of stories we can imagine with love, loss and reunion across time and space. Including stories by: Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Gailey, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Allan, Elizabeth Hand, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Catherynne M. Valente, Sam J. Miller, Rowan Coleman, Margo Lanagan, Sameem Siddiqui, Theodora Goss, Carrie Vaughn, Ellen Klages

When his mother accidentally kills a Quidhunk in the woods, Osmo Unknown must embark on a quest to find the Eightpenny Woods--the mysterious kingdom where all wild forest creatures go when they die--and make amends.

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2021. Includes stories by: ''Pemi Aguda G. V. Anderson Elizabeth Bear Kate Elliott Aliza Greenblatt Glen Hirshberg Elsie Kathleen Jennings Cheri Kamei Jasmin Kirkbride Matthew Kressel Usman T. Malik Sam J. Miller Annalee Newitz noc Sarah Pinsker Daniel Polansky Peng Shepherd Cooper Shrivastava Lavie Tidhar Catherynne M. Valente Carrie Vaughn E. Lily Yu At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Comfort Me With Apples is a terrifying new thriller from bestseller Catherynne M. Valente, for fans of Gone Girl and Spinning Silver A Shirley Jackson Award finalist! A Locus Award finalist! 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 face when he comes back from a long business trip. The questions he will not answer. The locked basement she is never allowed to enter. And whenever she asks the neighbors, they can''t quite meet her gaze.... But everything is perfect. Isn''t it? At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

All five books in the New York Times-bestselling Fairyland series by Catherynne Valente are now available in a beautiful paperback boxed set.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland comes Catherynne M. Valente''s dark fantasy tale \"L’Esprit de L’Escalier\

“The Candide of our #@$\*%?! age.”— Ken Liu, award-winning author 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 truth and she dared to love the world. A Hugo Award finalist! An inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction finalist! A Locus Award finalist! 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 patches is a magical place called Garbagetown. Tetley Abednego is the most beloved girl in Garbagetown, but she’s the only one who knows it. She’s the only one who knows a lot of things: that Garbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world, that it’s full of hope, that you can love someone and 66% hate them all at the same time. But Earth is a terrible mess, hope is a fragile thing, and a lot of people are very angry with her. Then Tetley discovers a new friend, a terrible secret, and more to her world than she ever expected. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Atreve-te a derrotar bandos de zombies, a fazer o bolo dos teus sonhos, a aventurar-te em novas dimensões! Uma Aventura Minecraft Oficial A Mo e o Fin vivem no Fim, um lugar sombrio e escuro guardado por um dragão assustador e onde se venera o Grande Caos. Onde há fragmentos e shulkers e telepatia e teletransporte. E onde se treina dia e noite para atacar o Mundo Superior, onde vivem os humanos, a grande ameaça. Mas, um dia, o portal abre-se e os humanos invadem o Fim. Será que a Mo e o Fin vão finalmente descobrir quem são? Será que os humanos são assim tão assustadores? E o Fim, terá realmente um fim? O Minecraft é um jogo para assentar blocos e partir à aventura. Podes construir, brincar e desbravar mundos que se geram infinitamente, com montanhas, grutas, oceanos, selvas e desertos. Atreve-te a derrotar bandos de zombies, a fazer o bolo dos teus sonhos, a aventurar-te em novas dimensões ou a erguer um arranha-céus. Tu é que decides o que te apetece fazer.

The March/April 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, Dominica Phetteplace, Caroline M. Yoachim, Carrie Vaughn, Rati Mehotra, and Sarah Pinsker. Reprint fiction by Alaya Dawn Johnson. Essays by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Sid Jain, Marieke Nijkamp, and Jay Edidin, poetry by Tamara Jerée, Brandon O''Brien, Terese Mason Pierre, and Ali Trotta, interviews with Caroline M. Yoachim by Tina Connolly, and Sarah Pinsker by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Paul Lewin, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas. Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in November 2014. Edited by 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Hugo award winners for best semiprozine, and 2018 Hugo award winners for Best Editor, Short Form, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, and Chimedum Ohaegbu and Elsa Sjunneson, each issue of Uncanny includes new stories, poetry, articles, and interviews.

Kvarianská archa Keelah Si’yah se plaví do galaxie v Andromedě a na její palubě se nachází dvacet tisíc kolonistů rozličných druhů včetně drellů, elkorů nebo batarianů. Třicet let před tím, než mají dorazit do cíle, odhalí rutinní prohlídka mrtvé drelly, ležící ve svých kryopodech, a smrtící patogen na palubě. Nákaza se brzy začíná šířit napříč druhy a začne být rychle jasné, že nejde o žádnou nehodu. Je to vražda a její pachatel je stále na palubě. Lodní systémy jeden po druhém selhávají a mezi kolonisty se šíří panika, neboť virus způsobuje otoky mozku vedoucí k šílenství, halucinacím a strašlivým výbuchům násilí. Pokud se posádce nepodaří lodní technologie opět uvést do chodu a najít lék, Keelah Si’yah do Nexu nikdy nedorazí.

È sempre buio nell''End. L''alba non esiste. Il tramonto non esiste. Le lancette degli orologi sono immobili. Questo non significa che non esista il tempo. O la luce. Fin e Mo, fratello e sorella, sono gemelli. A dire il vero Fin è tre minuti più vecchio, ma evita di farlo pesare. Una considerazione del genere è troppo precisa, sa troppo di Ordine: nell''End l''Ordine non è il benvenuto. Ed è proprio qui che i gemelli hanno sempre vissuto, a bordo di una nave stracolma di cianfrusaglie, in compagnia di uno scorbutico shulker, Grumpo, e con un Enderman dagli occhi verdi come unico amico. Anche Fin e Mo sono Endermen. Sono cresciuti da soli, senza genitori, facendo i cercarottami nei misteriosi territori dominati dallo sguardo vigile del drago dell''End. Eppure, nonostante le difficoltà, sono soddisfatti di ciò che hanno. Tutto vacilla quando inizia l''invasione. Gli uomini, terribili creature del mondo principale, dilagano nell''End per saccheggiare, distruggere e uccidere il drago. Gli Endermen si preparano alla guerra e i gemelli sono pronti a combattere, ma quando si troveranno davanti al nemico scopriranno una verità sconvolgente. In un''epica battaglia per la sopravvivenza, chi è davvero il nemico? Un inaspettato cambio di prospettiva per il più originale tra i romanzi di Minecraft.

So lange sie sich erinnern können, haben die beiden Endermen Fin und Mo im mysteriösen ?Ende? gelebt. Am Rande der großen Endermen-Stadt Talos erkunden sie antike Ruinen unter dem wachsamen Blick des mächtigen Enderdrachen. Sie haben alles, was sie brauchen und wissen alles, was sie über ihre Welt wissen müssen - bis sie auf die Fremden aus einer anderen Dimension treffen. Die Invasoren heißen Menschen und sie sind gekommen, um den Enderdrachen zu töten. Fin und Mo sind bereit, ihr Haus vor den Eindringlingen zu schützen, aber als sie sich den Menschen gegenübersehen, stellen sie fest, dass sie nicht so kampfbereit sind, wie sie gedacht hatten. Unvorbereitet sind die Zwillinge mitten in einem Krieg zwischen den Endermen und den Menschen gefangen, und die Zukunft ihres Hauses steht auf dem Spiel.

Un roman officiel MINECRAFT ! D''aussi loin qu''ils se souviennent, Fin et Mo, frère et soeur Endermen, ont toujours vécu dans la contrée de l''End. Aux abords de la grande ville Enderman de Telos, les jumeaux explorent les ruines antiques sous l''oeil vigilant du puissant Ender Dragon. Ils connaissent tous les secrets de leur monde, et ils ne manquent de rien dans le navire de l''End dans lequel ils ont élu domicile. Du moins, c''est ce qu''ils pensaient, avant l''arrivée d''étrangers provenant d''une autre dimension. Ces envahisseurs, des humains en quête d''artefacts, débarquent avec l''intention de terrasser l''Ender Dragon. Fin et Mo vont se retrouver propulsés au milieu d''un conflit qui les dépasse, mais savent que le destin de leur monde est en jeu. Il fait toujours nuit dans l''End. Il n''y a pas de lever de soleil. Ni de crépuscule. C''est un lieu magnifique. Et il est loin d''être vide.

Tor.com''s science fiction and fantasy flash fiction collection originally published in 2017 inspired by the now-iconic statement, now available in e-book format. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted. Three short lines, fired over social media in response to questions of why Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced on the floor of the United States Senate, for daring to read aloud the words of Coretta Scott King. As this message was transmitted across the globe, it has become a galvanizing cry for people of all genders in recognition of the struggles that women have faced throughout history. Three short lines, which read as if they are the opening passage to an epic and ageless tale. We have assembled this flash fiction collection featuring several of the best writers in SF/F today, including Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, Maria Dahvana Headley, Jo Walton, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherynne M. Valente, Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kameron Hurley, Nisi Shawl and Carrie Vaughn. Together these authors share unique visions of women inventing, playing, loving, surviving, and – of course – dreaming of themselves beyond their circumstances. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Osiřelá dvojčata Fin a Mo bydlí od narození v záhadné krajině End. Když portálem z Overworldu proniknou do Endu vetřelci, Mo s Finem nedokážou sami vzdorovat smrtícímu nebezpečí. Moc je v rukou jádroploditele Kraje a do boje se vrhá i samotný drak Endu.

Die schönen neuen Welten, die die Andromeda- Inititative ihren Siedlern versprochen hat, entpuppen sich als brandgefährliches Terrain. Schon der Weg dahin erweist sich als äußerst gefährlich als ein pathogenes Virus auf einem Kolonieschiff freigesetzt wird... Band 3 der actiongeladenen Romanserie zum neuesten großen Sci-Fi-Gamehit von Bioware/Electronic Arts!

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 An official tie-in to the hit video game Mass Effect: Andromeda by James Tiptree Jr. and Locus Award-winner 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 is jumping species, and it quickly becomes clear that this is no accident. It''s murder, and the perpetrator is still on board. The ship''s systems rapidly degrade, and panic spreads among the colonists, for the virus yields a terrible swelling of the brain that causes madness, hallucinations, and dreadful violence. If the ship''s crew can''t restore their technology and find a cure, the Keelah Si''yah will never make it to the Nexus. Copyright © 2017-2018 Electronic Arts Inc. EA, the EA logo, Mass Effect, Mass Effect: Andromeda, BioWare and the BioWare logo are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Collection of thirteen stories.