Sometimes a short story can contain an entire solar system. Catherine M. Valente’s “The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew” is one such story. Published in the August 2009 issue of Clarkesworld, it served as the spark for her latest novel. Radiance, out from Tor Books on October 20th, is a wildly ambitious novel that not … Continue reading Radiant Metafiction: A Conversation with Catherynne M. Valente by Chris Urie