Tell Me a Differently Shaped Story

Also brilliantly put together: Catherynne M. Valente’s Radiance, which is for my money easily one of her most wondrous books. A novel about movies told in part in screenplays, it is also about mysteries, and space whales, and fathers and daughters, secrets, and endings. There are conversation transcripts, gossip columns, switching genres, radio plays—when I think of Radiance I think of narrative abundance. And also of cocktails. It’s glamorous, intimate, and emotional at once, which might be one of Valente’s specialties.

— from “Tell Me a Differently Shaped Story: SFF That Plays With Form” by Molly Templeton, Reactor magazine