The Melancholy of Mechagirl
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1421556138 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Valente.A collection of some of Catherynne Valente’s most admired stories, including the Hugo Award-nominated novella Silently and Very Fast and the Locus Award finalist “13 Ways of Looking at Space/Time,” with a brand-new long story to anchor the collection.. Science fiction and fantasy stories about Japan by the multiple-award winning author and New York Times best seller Catherynne M
Catherynne M. Valente is a New York Times best-selling author of fantasy and science fiction novels, short stories, and poetry. She lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her husband, two dogs, one enormous friendly cat and one less enormous, less friendly one, and six chickens. She has been nominated for or has won every major award in the science fiction/fantasy field, including the Hugo, Worl
A luminous collection of stories like pearls, each with an unpalatable truth in the center I went back to this book to look up the bits I had highlighted for review, and I ended up re-reading Fade to White, the story in this book that I found creepiest and best.The whole book is an excellent assemblage, and I especially loved the poem at the beginning, abou. Lyrical and challenging and very worth it This book was not what I was expecting, nor anything like what I usually read and had I know just what it was I probably wouldn’t have bought it and that would have been a real shame. This book challenged me in ways I haven’t been challenged in a long time. A blend of both spectacular and harder to grasp stories that blend sci-fi with Japanese mythos I have had this book for a while to read, it’s a collection of short stories by Valente and has some excellent and some good stories in it. I have read most of Valente’s novels and really enjoy her prose-like and sometimes ambiguous writing style.This book
About the Author Catherynne M. Valente is a New York Times best-selling author of fantasy and science fiction novels, short stories, and poetry. She has been nominated for or has won every major award in the science fiction/fantasy field, including the Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus James Tiptree Jr., Andrew Norton, and Mythopoeic awards. She lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her husband, two dogs, one enormous friendly cat and one less enormous, less friendly one, and six chickens.