Science fiction and fantasy stories about Japan by the multiple-award winning author and New York Times best seller Catherynne M. 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. Contents: The Melancholy of Mechagirl (2011) poem Ink, Water, Milk (2013) Fifteen Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai (2010) Ghosts of Gunkanjima (2005) Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time (2010) One Breath, One Stroke (2012) Story No. 6 (2013) Fade to White (2012) The Emperor of Tsukayama Park (2005) poem Killswitch (2007) Memoirs of a Girl Who Failed to Be Born from a Peach (2005) poem The Girl with Two Skins (2008) poem Silently and Very Fast (2011)
Author
Catherynne M. Valente was born on Cinco de Mayo, 1979 in Seattle, WA, but grew up in in the wheatgrass paradise of Northern California. She graduated from high school at age 15, going on to UC San Diego and Edinburgh University, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics. She then drifted away from her M.A. program and into a long residence in the concrete and camphor wilds of Japan. She currently lives in Maine with her partner, two dogs, and three cats, having drifted back to America and the mythic frontier of the Midwest.
