About
Genevieve Valentine’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Journal of Mythic Arts, Fantasy, Farrago’s Wainscot, Sybil’s Garage, Federations, edited by John Joseph Adams, and more. She is a columnist at Tor.com and Fantasy Magazine.
Her first novel, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, is forthcoming from Prime Books.
Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her blog. She is currently working on a formula to evaluate the awfulness of any given film, a scale that will be measured in Julians to honor Julian Sands, who has bravely uttered some of the worst lines ever filmed,in some of the worst wigs ever made.
Genevieve is represented by Jennifer Jackson.
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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My other favorite in [the Non-Fiction] category would include everything and anything by Genevieve Valentine. Seriously. Her lovingly scathing reviews of Questionable Taste Theatre and other satirical film reviews appear regularly in places like Fantasy Magazine and Tor.com, but even her LiveJournal comments are a riot.
- Camille Alexa, “Mildly Anarchistic Review of Favorites of 2008,” Green Man Review
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[29 Union Leaders Can't Be Wrong] never overpowers, never overstates its case. It treats the reader as if it has a brain and lets you feel your own emotions by reacting.
- Jeremiah Tolbert
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Author Interview – Federations
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Genevieve Valentine, the evening’s final reader, presented the quietly gripping “Carthago Delenda Est”.
-Mark Blackman, Examiner.com.
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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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“The Drink of Fine Gentlemen Everywhere” by Genevieve Valentine. One of the highlights of the issue, and a fine, fine ghost story – except to call it a ghost story doesn’t really reflect the spirit of it (har, har). The supernatural element aside, the story deals with domestic violence in a very plausible, low-key and therefore chilling, way…The resolution is powerful…the ending was ripe for discussion at a WisCon panel – perhaps we’ll see that next year. In any case, don’t miss this story.
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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
