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Catherynne M. Valente is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels, short stories and poetry. She writes the Fairyland series and is a New York Times bestselling author. She has won the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards. Cathrynne was born in Seattle, where she lived until she was 13, when she moved to California. She graduated from high school when she was 15 and went onto UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, earning a B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She has worked as a professional fortune teller, telemarketer, private tutor, librarian, waitress, bartender, actress and statistician. Cat lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner and a growing menagerie of animals.

Catherynne M. Valente made her debut as a novelist in 2006 with The Labyrinth. She had published a couple of poetry collections the year prior. Below is a list of Catherynne M. Valente’s books in order of when they were originally released:

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Publication Order of A Dirge for Prester John Books

The Habitation of the Blessed(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Folded World(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Fairyland Books

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still(2016)
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Publication Order of Leningrad Diptych Books

Deathless(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Orphan's Tales Books

In the Night Garden(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In the Cities of Coin and Spice(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Space Opera Books

Space Opera(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Space Oddity(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Grass Cutting Sword(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Labyrinth(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Yume No Hon(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Palimpsest(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Radiance(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Past Is Red(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Under in the Mere(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Silently and Very Fast(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fade to White(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Speak Easy(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sin of America(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
L'Espirit de L'Escalier(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Comfort Me With Apples(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Difference Between Love and Time(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Oracles(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Apocrypha(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
This Is My Letter To The World(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ventriloquism(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Myths of Origin(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Six-Gun Snow White(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Melancholy of Mechagirl(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Bread We Eat in Dreams(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Indistinguishable from Magic(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Refrigerator Monologues(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Future is Blue(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Children's Books

Smoky and the Feast of Mabon(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Glass Town Game(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Mass Effect: Andromeda Books

Nexus Uprising (By: Jason M. Hough)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Initiation (By: N.K. Jemisin)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Annihilation(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Minecraft Books

The Island (By: Max Brooks)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Crash (By: Tracey Baptiste)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lost Journals (By: Mur Lafferty)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The End(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Voyage (By: Jason Fry)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rise of the Arch-Illager (By: Matt Forbeck)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shipwreck (By: C.B. Lee)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mountain (By: Max Brooks)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dragon (By: Nicky Drayden)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mob Squad (By: Delilah S. Dawson)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Haven Trials (By: Suyi Davies)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Minecraft: The Haven Trials (By: Suyi Davies)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Never Say Nether (By: Delilah S. Dawson)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zombies! (By: Nick Eliopulos)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Don't Fear the Creeper (By: Delilah S. Dawson)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Castle Redstone (By: Sarwat Chadda)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Minecraft Legends: Return of the Piglins (By: Matt Forbeck)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Return Of The Piglins (By: Matt Forbeck)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Village (By: Max Brooks)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books

The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The WisCon Chronicles 11(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Anthologies

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Catherynne M. Valente Synopsis: The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne M. Valente explores the strange landscape of primeval Japan, from the Heaven-Spanning Bridge to the hellish Root-Country: the troubled trickster Susanoo-no-Mikoto, god of wind and storms, is banished from heaven and wanders the earth, lost in human form, in search of his demonic mother and charged with the defeat of an eight-headed serpent…

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