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Original Title:	Radiance
ISBN:	0765335298 (ISBN13: 9780765335296)
Edition Language:	English

Radiance

Catherynne M. Valente

Hardcover | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 3787 Users | 957 Reviews

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Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood—and solar system—very different from our own, from the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

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. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe.

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. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony’s last survivor, Severin will never return.

Aesthetically recalling A Trip to the Moon and House of Leaves, and told using techniques from reality TV, classic film, gossip magazines, and meta-fictional narrative, Radiance is a solar system-spanning story of love, exploration, family, loss, quantum physics, and silent film.

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Title	:	Radiance
Author	:	Catherynne M. Valente
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	A Tor Book
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	October 20th 2015 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fantasy. Fiction. Alternate History. Steampunk

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I full on genuflect to the brilliance, imagination and gorgeous mind behind this book. It's recognizably the woman who wrote Palimpsest, but even more tender, even more full of such stuff as dreams are made on. I'll never forget this patchwork of glorious pieces. I hope to write more soon.

Outer space is the ultimate gothic mansion. What better place to search for things that go bump in the night? Radiance unfolds in a bygone era that never quite existed. The golden age of silent film... on the moon. Diving bells for the seas of Venus. The Ottoman empire stretching to Jupiter. These are the familiar bare bones of our solar system, clothed in the feathers and flesh of extraterrestrial fauna, and wearing a dandy top hat. It's an image partly reminiscent of a lot of classic sci-fi

I have no idea what to rate this! It made me cry at the end but wow, what a tough read. And by tough I mean I struggled to finish it. Full review to come.

This was A-Fucking-Mazing.This is what all SF aspires to be when it grows up and speaks like David Foster Wallace channeling Roger Zelazny.I want to have this book's babies.Do I like this? Oh my lord... do I like this??? Okay. Word of warning: don't bother reading this unless you KNOW your mythology, and I'm not just talking about the greeks. There's a boatload of Sumerian in here, as well. Each and every city is appropriate. Each and every name is square on the mark. This book is brilliant.

4.5A wonderful present from Lys, I literally squealed when I saw it. :*It's close to 5 but I'm not sure how to rate it yet. Deathless is still my favourite of Valente's books and this one maybe didn't "flow" like I wanted it to. However I can't do anything but be amazed at her writing style and ideas and, most of all, knowledge of mythology. Radiance is extremely complex and full of references to mythology...I probably could re-read it all over again and find completely new elements. The blurb

This was A-Fucking-Mazing.This is what all SF aspires to be when it grows up and speaks like David Foster Wallace channeling Roger Zelazny.I want to have this book's babies.Do I like this? Oh my lord... do I like this??? Okay. Word of warning: don't bother reading this unless you KNOW your mythology, and I'm not just talking about the greeks. There's a boatload of Sumerian in here, as well. Each and every city is appropriate. Each and every name is square on the mark. This book is brilliant.

A technically brilliant epistolary book with wonderful language, but nowhere to hang my hat.This is the story of Severin Unck and her disappearance and Anchises, a mysterious boy that's the only survivor of a village on Venus in a bizarre version of our solar system which roughly matches the fictionalizations of the early 20th century. Every planet is habitable and inhabited by alien life and travel between planets is relatively easy. Severin is a film-maker, and the daughter of a renowned