Radiance (50 page)

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Chronology

Locations

Epigraphs

Come Forward!

Oh, Those Scandalous Stars!

Part One: The White Pages

The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

Preproduction Meeting,
The Deep Blue Devil
[working title]

The Deep Blue Devil
: Come Find Me

Newsreel

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

Self-Portrait with Saturn

Oh, Those Scandalous Stars!

Look Down

The Ingénue's Handbook

Ship's Manifest, Small Commercial Craft
Clamshell

I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain

How Many Miles to Babylon?
: Episode 764

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Deep Blue Devil
: The Dame in Question

All-Clear

Part Two: The Blue Pages

The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew

Production Meeting,
The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask

The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
: My Sin

Your Friend Pluto!

The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
: Totentanz

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

And the Sea Remembered, Suddenly

Look at Her Face

The Miranda Affair

The Ingénue's Handbook

How Many Miles to Babylon?
: Episode 1

His Master's Voice

Oh, Those Scandalous Stars!

The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
: The Murder of Gonzago

“Calliope the Carefree Callowhale” PSA

Part Three: The Green Pages

The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew

Production Meeting,
The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
Doctor Callow's Dream

The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
Doctor Callow's Dream
: The Land of Milk and Desire

The Famine Queen of Phobos

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Ingénue's Handbook

Kansas

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
Doctor Callow's Dream
: The House, the Eye, and the Whale

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
Doctor Callow's Dream
: Teatime for Mr Bergamot

Part Four: The Gold Pages

The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew

Production Meeting,
The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
Doctor Callow's Dream
And If She's Not Gone, She Lives There Still

The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
Doctor Callow's Dream
And If She's Not Gone, She Lives There Still
: The Case of the Disappearing Documentarian

From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck

The Graeae

Christmas Card, mailed to C. Brass c/o Oxblood Films, Yemaya, December 1952

The Ingénue's Handbook

How Many Miles to Babylon?
: Episode 974

The Deep Blue Devil
The Man in the Malachite Mask
Doctor Callow's Dream
And If She's Not Gone, She Lives There Still
: The Case of the Reappearing Raconteur

Part Five: The Red Pages

The Man of the Hours

Goodbye

The Howler and the Lord of the World

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Books by Catherynne M. Valente

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

RADIANCE

Copyright © 2015 by Catherynne M. Valente

All rights reserved.

Cover art and design by Will Staehle

Sappho translation
here
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First Edition: October 2015