Free Speculative Fiction Online: Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente

Nominated for 9 Hugos.

Nominated for 3 Nebulas.

Nominated for 4 World Fantasy Awards.

(These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only! Other awards, including the Retro Hugos, are not covered)

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Stories currently online:

A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica (Clarkesworld #20, May 2008)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2009.
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best Fantasy 9’.
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Silently and Very Fast (Clarkesworld #62, October 2011)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novella 2012.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novella 2011.
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novella 2012.
Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twenty-Ninth Edition.
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A serial. Part 2. Part 3.

Fade to White (Clarkesworld #71, August 2012)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2013.
Nebula Nomination for Best Novelette 2012.
Featured in Strahan’s ‘Best SF & F of the Year’, Volume Seven.
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The Sin of America (Uncanny Magazine #39, March 2021)
Hugo Nomination for Best Short Story 2022.
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L’Espirit de L’Escalier (Tor.com, August 2021)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2022.
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The Difference Between Love and Time (Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance Anthology, 2022)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novelette 2023.
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Recommended!

Bones Like Black Sugar (Fantasy Magazine #1, Winter 2005)
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The Maiden Tree (Best New Fantasy Anthology, 2006)
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Thread: A Triptych (Lone Star Stories #14, April 2006)
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Urchins, While Swimming (Clarkesworld #3, December 2006)
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A Dirge for Prester John (Interfictions Anthology, 2007)
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The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth (Lone Star Stories #22, August 2007)
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Exsanguinations (By Blood We Live Anthology, 2009)

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Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy (Federations Anthology, 2009)
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The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew (Clarkesworld #35, August 2009)
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Featured in Richard Horton’s ‘The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010’.
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The Days of Flaming Motorcycles (Apex Magazine #12, May 2010)
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How to Become a Mars Overlord (Lightspeed, August 2010)
Featured in Hartwell & Cramers’s ‘Year’s Best SF 16’.
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2010’ list.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time (Clarkesworld #47, August 2010)
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2010’ list.

The Wolves of Brooklyn (Fantasy Magazine, July 2011)
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The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland — For a Little While (Tor.com, July 2011)
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The Bread We Eat in Dreams (Apex Magazine #30, November 2011)
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On Tilton’s ‘best fiction from 2011’ list.

A Hole to China (Lightspeed, May 2012)
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The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (Clarkesworld #100, January 2015)
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Planet Lion (Uncanny Magazine #4, May 2015)
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The Future is Blue (Drowned Worlds Anthology, 2016)
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The Quidnunx (Apex Magazine, April 2016)
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The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #200, May 2016)
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Snow Day (Uncanny Magazine #11, July 2016)
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The Ordinary Woman and the Unquiet Emperor (Tor.com, March 2017)
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Down and Out in R’lyeh (Uncanny Magazine, September 2017)
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The Sun in Exile (A People's Future of the United States Anthology, 2019)
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Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo (Strange Horizons, September 2020)
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A Fall Counts Anywhere (Uncanny Magazine #49, December 2022)
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Can You Hear Me Now? (Uncanny Magazine #54, September 2023)
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