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Catherynne valente space opera
Catherynne valente space opera








catherynne valente space opera catherynne valente space opera

Do you have enough goodness in your world to let the music play? Who cannot see outside themselves clearly enough to sing their truth to the heavens.

catherynne valente space opera

Who yell at anyone with ears to turn off that racket. The only way to prove this to the intergalactic community is by playing in the Metagalactic Grand Prix and not coming in last:ĭo you have enough empathy and yearning and desperation to connect to others outside yourself and scream into the void in four-part harmony? Enough brainpower and fine motor control and aesthetic ideation to look at feathers and stones and stuff that comes out of a worm’s more unpleasant holes and see gowns, veils, platform heels? Enough sheer style and excess energy to do something that provides no direct, material benefit to your personal survival, that might even mark you out from the pack as shiny, glittery prey, to do it for no other reason than that it rocks?Īre you kind enough, on your little planet, not to shut that rhythm down? Not to crush underfoot the singers of songs and tellers of tales and wearers of silk? Because it’s monsters who do that. Since the Wars, the various surviving races have determined that once a species has become space-faring, they must be evaluated for a level of sentience that suggests that they might not be irredeemably awful. All space-faring species must participate. The set up for the plot, such as it is, is that after the conclusion of a terrible series of wars, intergalactic species agreed to come together periodically for a musical contest: the Metagalactic Grand Prix.

catherynne valente space opera

At least, not if you are planning to operate heavy machinery. But I would no sooner advise you to read it in one go than I’d advise you to chug an entire bottle of straight absinthe. If it can punctuate the last week I had with moments of glitter, light, and delight, then this book can do anything. I have a chronic illness that causes me to spend a lot of time in the bathroom, so when I say that this was a perfect, incandescent, practically glowing bathroom book, I mean it, unironically, as the highest praise. You should read one chapter at a time and bask in the afterglow. Space Opera is not a book to read all at once.










Catherynne valente space opera