![]() Of more recent interest is Radiance ( 2015), set in an Alternate Cosmos from which our own universe is only briefly glimpsed as part of a sheaf of possibilities. Any elements of the exposed arguments typical of sf are deeply submerged here, as demonstrated in her several series to date: the Orphan's Tales sequence, beginning with In the Night Garden ( 2006), which won a James Tiptree Jr Award the Fairyland sequence of Young Adult tales, two titles in the series – The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making ( 2011) and The Girl Who Soared Above Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two ( 2013), the first winning an Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (see Nebula), and each winning a Locus Award – and the Dirge for Prester John sequence beginning with The Habitation of the Blessed ( 2010). Its Theseus-like female protagonist (see Heroes) must plunge through a far more disruptive Labyrinth than the one described in the Greek myth, in this case combining aspects of the Pocket Universe and the Portal to other Dimensions, with hints of the arbitrariness of the typical Wonderland. Much of the fantasy over the first decade of her career has been markedly complex and challenging, her first novel, The Labyrinth ( 2004), proving to be characteristic. The latter is a Western whose oppressed Native American protagonist must craft a life for herself, though caught in the coils of an invidious family. An exemplary early twenty-first century figure whose work ranges over the whole of Fantastika, though only recently has she written sf, examples being Silently and Very Fast (October-December 2011 Clarkesworld 2011), which won a Locus and a Hugo award, and Six-Gun Snow White ( 2013), which won a Locus award. ![]() SF Squeecast gained for her and her colleagues Hugo awards in 20 for best podcast her shorter prose fictions have won several prizes, including a Locus Award for "White Lines on a Green Field" (October 2011 Subterranean). (1979- ) US editor, fancaster, poet and author, born Bethany Thomas, Valente apparently being her legal name, who won a Rhysling Award for her long poem, "The Seven Devils of Central California" (Summer 2007 Farrago's Wainscot) she began to publish prose work of genre interest with "Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire by Anna S Oppenhagen-Petrescu" in By Blood We Live (anth 2009) edited by John Joseph Adams.
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