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Also by Catherynne M. Valente:

Space Oddity, December 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Comfort Me With Apples, November 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Past Is Red, July 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Space Opera, December 2018
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Space Opera, April 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Refrigerator Monologues, March 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
The Folded World, November 2011
Paperback
Z: Zombie Stories, October 2011
Paperback

The Past Is Red
Catherynne M. Valente

Tor.com
July 2021
On Sale: July 20, 2021
160 pages
ISBN: 1250301130
EAN: 9781250301130
Kindle: B08GZW6KF3
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction

“The Candide of our #@$*%?! age.”— Ken Liu, award-winning author

Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love the world.

The future is blue. Endless blue…except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown.

Tetley Abednego is the most beloved girl in Garbagetown, but she’s the only one who knows it. She’s the only one who knows a lot of things: that Garbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world, that it’s full of hope, that you can love someone and 66% hate them all at the same time.

But Earth is a terrible mess, hope is a fragile thing, and a lot of people are very angry with her. Then Tetley discovers a new friend, a terrible secret, and more to her world than she ever expected.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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