And if we manage to not come in last place-that’s all we have to do, just don’t come in last-we will be welcomed into the family with open arms. So in order to prove our sentience and the level of our civilisation, we are strongly mandatorily invited to take part in the Metagalactic Grand Prix, which is Eurovision in space essentially, which takes place every cycle among the gathered species of the galaxy. Earth encounters alien life for the first time, and are immediately informed that our sentience is definitely up for debate and not entirely sure we are worth bringing into the galactic community. But it’s the story of the galaxy and the story of a washed-up rock band called Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes. Obviously Eurovision is not something that Americans are wholly aware of, so most of the little Easter eggs are quite well hidden. The shorthand for it is just Eurovision in space, and a few people have described it as Douglas Adams meets Eurovision. Would you be able to tell us a bit about it? Your latest novel Space Opera is out now and is nominated for a Hugo.
Valente was attending WorldCon in Dublin, and was kind enough to speak to The Fantasy Hive via Skype while she was there. Her work has won the Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction or Fantasy, the Mythopoeic Award, the James Tiptree Jr Award and been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award.Ĭatherynne M. She has written the fairy tale inspired Fantasy The Orphans Tales (2006-2007), Palimspest (2009), a portal Fantasy about people who travel to a fantastical city after sleeping with people who share a tattoo of the city on their bodies, The Glass Town Game (2017), a gothic Fantasy starring Emily and Charlotte Bronte, and the fractured science fiction narrative of Radiance (2015). Her YA novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making (2011) was the first online crowdfunded book to win a major literary award before traditional publication, and spawned three sequels and a prequel. Her most recent novel, Space Opera (2018), was nominated for a Hugo Award. Valente is a unique voice in modern genre fiction.
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