The Habitation of the Blessed - Catherynne M. Valente [125]
Thank you also to my usual cohort: my husband Dmitri, who not only read every draft and loved them until I loved them too, but checked me into a hotel in the wilds of Maine until I finished this beast. To Elizabeth McClellan, who offered a kind beta read and reassured my frazzled soul, to SJ Tucker, my sister in crimes of art, to Tiffin Staib, Amal El-Mohtar, Deborah Castellano, and Evelyn Kriete, without whom I would be lost. To everyone who has helped me stand up, keep moving, keep smiling, never give up, never fail. You are my tribe; you are my blessed kingdom of monsters and angels.
To my agent, Howard Morhaim, I am forever grateful—he is the Dumbledore to all my bedraggled children, finding them magical homes when I despair. To my team of editors and copyeditors, Jeremy Lassen, Juliet Ulman, and Marty Halpern, all of whom taught me a great deal in the course of processing this book into the form you hold in your hands.
Finally, thank you to the anonymous student who once turned in a very bad poem about the priest-king in the East, and caused me to say to an empty office: Prester John deserves better.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Catherynne M. Valente is the author of over a dozen books of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Tiptree Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Lambda Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Million Writers Award. She was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 2007 and 2009, and the Locus and Hugo awards in 2010. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, an enormous cat, and an accordion.
Table of Contents
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE HABITATION OF THE BLESSED
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE CRYSTALLINE HEAVEN
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
ADDENDUM TO THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Table of Contents
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE HABITATION OF THE BLESSED
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE WORD IN THE QUINCE
THE CONFESSIONS OF HIOB VON LUZERN, 1699
THE CRYSTALLINE HEAVEN
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN
THE SCARLET NURSERY
THE BOOK OF THE FOUNTAIN