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Catherynne M. Valente


The Future Is Blue

The Future Is Blue

Garbagetown

Catherynne M. Valente

Locus and Strugeon Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Drowned Worlds (2016), edited by Jonathan Strahan. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven (2017), edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017, edited by Paula Guran, and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017, edited by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu. It is incuded in the collection The Future Is Blue (2018).

This story comprises the first quarter of the book The Past Is Red and it can be read for free at Clarkesworld.

The Past Is Red

The Past Is Red

Garbagetown

Catherynne M. Valente

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.

The first quarter of this book was published as the novelette The Past Is Red and it can be read for free at Clarkesworld.

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