Free Speculative Fiction Online: Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente

Nominated for one Hugo.

Nominated for 2 World Fantasy Awards.

(These numbers refer to awards for best novel, novella, novelette and short story only!)

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More links to online fiction on the author's homepage!

Award-nominated fiction:

The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (Bantam Spectra, 2006)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Novel 2007.

Not freely available online!

A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica (Clarkesworld #20, May 2008)
World Fantasy Award Nomination for Best Short Story 2009.
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Featured in Rich Horton's "Web's Best SF & F 2008".
Featured in Hartwell & Kramer's "Year's Best Fantasy #9".

Palimpsest (Bantam Spectra, 2009)
Hugo Nomination for Best Novel 2010.

Not freely available online!

Other fiction online:

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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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

Thread: A Triptych (Lone Star Stories #14, April 2006)
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Pasiphae's Machine (Heliotrope #1, August 2006)
Available as part of this magazine.
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Urchins, While Swimming (Clarkesworld #3, December 2006)
Alternate link.
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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)
A sample from this anthology. Alternate link.
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The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew (Clarkesworld #35, August 2009)
Alternate link.
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Secretario (Weird Tales #356, Summer 2010)
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Published somewhere on the World Wide Web.

The Days of Flaming Motorcycles (Apex, May 2010)
Available as part of this anthology.
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How to Become a Mars Overlord (Lightspeed, August 2010)
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On Tilton's 'best fiction from 2010' list.

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

White Lines on a Green Field (Subterranean Online, Fall 2011)
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The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland – For a Little While (Tor.com, July 2011)
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The Wolves of Brooklyn (Fantasy Magazine, July 2011)
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Silently and Very Fast (Clarkesworld #62, October 2011)
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A serial. Part 2. Part 3.