About
BIOGRAPHY
Genevieve Valentine’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, and Apex, and in the anthologies Federations, The Living Dead 2, The Way of the Wizard, Running with the Pack, Teeth, and more.
Her nonfiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Tor.com, and Fantasy Magazine, and she is the co-author of Geek Wisdom (out from Quirk Books).
Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, has won the 2012 Crawford Award. You can learn more about the novel at the Circus Tresualti website.
Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her blog.
AUTHOR PHOTOS
(Click any photo to get to a high-res image. All photo credit goes to Ellen Wright.)
PRESS FOR MECHANIQUE
“…[A] highwire act of her own, Valentine still raises the novel above the ordinary through her ability to convey the richness of the circus performers’ emotional lives, coupled with impressive writing…
- The New York Times
This steampunk-flavored circus story begins with a disturbing undertone, like an out-of-tune calliope, and develops in hints and shadows…Fans of grim fantasy will love this menacing and fascinating debut.”
- Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
“Mechanique is a brutal gem of a novel–a fierce, gilded textual circus. The story is spun from words that are sweeter than sugar, but the result is dark and weird, and it will bite you back.”
– Cherie Priest, bestselling author of Boneshaker and Dreadnought
OTHER PRESS
INTERVIEW: Bibliophile Stalker
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[Bespoke] is a critique of extreme disparity of wealth and privilege, the sort of wealth that thinks the rules don’t apply to it. The clients mirror their counterparts of the past: the Roman slave owners, the Victorian magnates, the daimyo class of feudal Japan. Simone and Petra participate vicariously by association, and the author skillfully seduces the reader, as well, into appreciating the sort of luxury that can only exist when the privileged command the services of the skilled, disregarding the cost, which is apparent all around them. RECOMMENDED.
- Lois Tilton, Internet Review of Science Fiction
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The ones which take apart the idea of a confederacy of greatly different interstellar cultures, and what kind of shape it would take. Those are the stories which are most likely to stick in your mind after you’re done reading the whole thing.
For example, there’s Genevieve Valentine’s “Carthago Delenda Est,” about a ship full of humans, in a rendezvous point with a bunch of alien ships, all waiting hundreds of years for a super-advanced ambassador from a distant planet called Carthage to arrive – and while the gathering of different species sits in one place and waits, they create a kind of incidental peace, punctuated with bickering, cooperation and even a bit of interspecies nookie, and you sense they’re creating the first tentative links in what could become a real alliance.
- Charlie Jane Anders, io9
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Genevieve Valentine’s understated “29 Union Leaders Can’t Be Wrong” follows one police officer, fatally shot in the call of duty, as he resurrects in another body…Such a transformation will have far-reaching effects on a marriage, and on other personal relationships, especially the one relationship that contributed most to the necessity of the transplant itself. Downbeat but gripping…
- P.S. Jenkins, The Fix
