BOOKS BY CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Orphan’s Tales:
In the Night Garden
The Orphan’s Tales:
In the Cities of Coin and Spice
Palimpsest
Deathless
The Dirge for Prester John: The Habitation of the Blessed
The Dirge for Prester John: The Folded World
Six-Gun Snow White
Silently and Very Fast
The Fairyland Books
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland
in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland
and Led the Revels There
The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland
and Cut the Moon in Two
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
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 by Francis Fawkes
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First Edition: October 2015
Contents
Dedication
Chronology
Locations
Epigraph
Come Forward!
Oh, Those Scandalous Stars!
PART ONE - THE WHITE PAGES
The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew
(Oxblood Films, dir. Severin Unck, 1946)
From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck
Preproduction Meeting, The Deep Blue Devil [working title]
(Tranquillity Studios, 1959, dir. Percival Unck)
The Deep Blue Devil: Come Find Me
Newsreel
From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck
Self-Portrait with Saturn
(Tranquillity Studios, 1936, dir. Severin Unck)
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
(Oxblood films, dir. Severin Unck)
Production Meeting,
The Man in the Malachite Mask
(Tranquillity Studios, 1960, dir. Percival Unck)
The Man in the Malachite Mask:
My Sin
Your Friend Pluto!
(Patriot Films, 1921)
The Man in the Malachite Mask:
Totentanz
From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck
And the Sea Remembered, Suddenly
(Oxblood Films, 1941, dir. Severin Unck)
Look at Her Face
The Miranda Affair
(Capricorn Studios, 1931, dir. Thaddeus Irigaray)
The Ingénue’s Handbook
How Many Miles to Babylon?: Episode 1
His Master’s Voice
Oh, Those Scandalous Stars!
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
(Oxblood Films, dir. Severin Unck)
Production Meeting,
Doctor Callow’s Dream
(Tranquillity Studios, 1960, dir. Percival Unck)
Doctor Callow’s Dream
The Land of Milk and Desire
The Famine Queen of Phobos
(Oxblood Films, 1938, dir. Severin Unck)
From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck
The Ingénue’s Handbook
Kansas
From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck
Doctor Callow’s Dream:
The House, the Eye, and the Whale
From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck
Doctor Callow’s Dream:
Teatime for Mr Bergamot
PART FOUR - THE GOLD PAGES
The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew
(Oxblood Films, dir. Severin Unck)
Production Meeting
And If She’s Not Gone, She Lives There Still
(Tranquillity Studios, 1961, dir. Percival Unck)
And If She’s Not Gone, She Lives There Still:
The Case of the Disappearing Documentarian
From the Personal Reels of Percival Alfred Unck