Radiance, Catherynne M. Valente
Radiance, Catherynne M. Valente
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Radiance

Author: Catherynne M. Valente

Narrator: Heath Miller

Unabridged: 13 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2015

Synopsis

Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe.

About Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente, acclaimed author of many books for adults, made her children's book debut with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her husband.

About Heath Miller

Heath started his acting career at age thirteen with a role in the children's program Ship to Shore. His stage work has taken him all over his native Australia, from classrooms to botanical gardens, to historic museums and local theatres. He can be found in recording studios, comedy clubs, television sets, convention centres and youtube videos. An actor, director and master of ceremonies, Heath is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and currently finds himself living in Portland, Maine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

Re-read 5/24/20: After re-reading my gushing review from years ago and having just re-read the fantastic book, I wonder if there's anything I can add to it? Ah, how about this: Getting a nice hardbound version and sipping the tale like a great wine is recommended. Re-reads are not only welcome -- but......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle

Updated review after a second reading in November 2018. -- "I used to look up at night and dream of the solar system." Ms. Valente wrote the kind of book I wish I could write, and for that I am both in awe of her, and kinda pissed off. Seriously, the woman took some of my all-time favorite things, chuc......more

Goodreads review by Tom

This science fiction book, which is not really a science fiction book, tells a story, which is not really a story that is part tone poem, part pulp novel, part experimental romance, and parts of many other things. In fact it's not really a book is it? Just pieces of one. And yet, I love it right in......more

Goodreads review by Emily

Watch a mini-review in my August 2017 wrap up! Now THIS is a book that will stay with me... Obviously, Valente's writing deserves all kinds of praise. It's lush. You just swim though her prose. I can understand her use of language being a bit too much for some people, but I ate it up like a rich meal......more

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