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The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (Part 2) by Catherynne M. Valente (audio)

Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Magazine

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Our third podcast for March is “The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (Part 2)” written by Catherynne M. Valente and read by Kate Baker.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

0:08.8

There's not much news to report, so I'm just going to jump right into our third story for the month of March 2015.

0:20.0

In January 2015, we brought you the long good night of Violet Wild, part one, by Catherine M. Valenti.

0:36.3

This is the second part of that story.

0:39.7

Catherine M. Valenti is the New York Times best-selling author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry,

0:43.8

including Palim Cest, The Orphans Tale Series, Deathless,

0:49.0

and the crowd-funded phenomenon,

0:50.7

the girl who circumnavigated Fairyland and a ship of her own making.

0:55.8

She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Wiesling, Lambda, Locust, and Hugo Awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards as well.

1:06.2

She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner and several alarmingly large beasts.

1:12.2

Her newest adult novel, Radiance, will be published by Tor

1:16.2

books in August. And if you like what you hear, you can go back to August 2012 where you found Faye to White.

1:27.0

October, November, and December of 2011 brought you silently and very fast, part one, two, and three.

1:36.0

August 2010 was 13 ways of looking at space time.

1:40.0

2009 in August was the radiant car thy sparrows drew.

1:45.0

You can find more of Catherine at her website,

1:48.0

Catherine m Valenti.com.

1:51.0

So without further ado, I'd like you to go back and listen to part one and then come

1:59.2

back here to listen to part two, and sit back and relax, and let me tell you a story. 3. Green. Green. The place between the blue country and the green country is full of dinosaurs called stories,

2:27.0

bubble storms that make you think you're somebody else, and a sky and a ground that look almost exactly the same.

2:35.6

And for a little while, it was full of me.

2:39.8

My sorrow and me in the sparrowbone mask of the incarnadine Fisher women, across the blue country where it gets all narrow and thirsty.

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