The first part of this short novel is titled ‘The Future is Blue’ and started life as a standalone short story about a post-apocalyptic world in which a girl called Tetley Abadnego lives in a place called Garbagetown and spends her days being abused by her fellow residents. Which brings us to The Past is Red, a post-apocalyptic environmental fable with as much bad language as it has heart.
Just as an example, she followed up her five-volume Fairyland series (starting with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making) with her 2016 weird decopunk paean to the silent movie era Radiance, and, more recently, Space Opera, a science-fiction homage to the Eurovision Song Contest. Which is not surprising for an author who has been shortlisted for every major science fiction and fantasy award going and whose back catalogue is as eclectic as it is engaging. Just when you think the post-apocalyptic narrative might have become a bit stale, along comes Catherynne M Valente to blow it out of the water.
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