An official tie-in to the hit video game Mass Effect: Andromeda, written by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. ValenteThe Quarian ark Keelah Si'yah sails toward the Andromeda galaxy, carrying 20,000 colonists from sundry races including the drell, the elcor, and the batarians. Thirty years from their destination, a routine check reveals drell lying dead in their pods, and a deadly pathogen on board. Soon, the disease is jumping species, and it quickly becomes clear that this is no accident. It's murder, and the perpetrator is still on board.The ship's systems rapidly degrade, and panic spreads among the colonists, for the virus yields a terrible swelling of the brain that causes madness, hallucinations, and dreadful violence. If the ship's crew can't restore their technology and find a cure, the Keelah Si'yah will never make it to the Nexus.
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Speculative fiction gained a distinctive, mythic voice with the publication of fantasy series and standalone novels that reimagine folklore through intricate formal structures. Catherynne M. Valente achieved widespread acclaim with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, a crowdfunded bestseller that established her reputation in modern fantasy.
From the braided nested narrative of In the Night Garden to urban fantasy and science fiction, her expansive body of work bridges rich prose traditions with bold genre experimentation.
Catherynne Morgan Valente was born Bethany Thomas in Seattle, Washington, on May 5, 1979, and grew up moving between California and Washington. After graduating from high school in Davis, California, at age 15, she attended the University of California, San Diego, where she earned a degree in Classical Studies. She pursued graduate studies at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and lived overseas near Yokohama, Japan, for over two years before returning to the United States, living briefly in Virginia and Ohio, and eventually settling on Peaks Island off the coast of Maine.
Valente began publishing poetry and speculative fiction in the mid-2000s, winning a Rhysling Award in 2007 for her long poem "The Seven Devils of Central California." Her career accelerated with The Orphan's Tales duology; its first installment, In the Night Garden, earned the James Tiptree Jr. (now Otherwise) Award. She followed this success with the Andre Norton Award-winning The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and the Lambda Literary Award-winning Palimpsest. Her honors also include Locus, Mythopoeic, Theodore Sturgeon, Eugie Foster Memorial, and Hugo Awards. She lives on Peaks Island with her son.
Valente is widely recognized as a central figure in the "mythpunk" subgenre, defined by baroque, lyrical prose and formal experimentation. Her narratives frequently incorporate braided or nested frame stories, genre pastiche, and surreal imagery while blending ancient fairy tales and mythic motifs with contemporary politics and queer themes. Across her poetry, novellas, and novels, she balances elaborate stylistic complexity with sharp emotional stakes.
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