The Past Is Red

Name: The Past Is Red
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
ISBN: 9781666532296

Author: Catherynne M. Valente

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Unabridged: 5 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 08/17/2021

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Satire, Dystopian

Synopsis

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.

About Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente, acclaimed author of many books for adults, made her children's book debut with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her husband.

About Penelope Rawlins

Penelope Rawlins is an award-winning audiobook narrator and acclaimed stage actress. Nominated for Narrator of the Year by Audible, she has recorded over 300 audiobooks and participated in hundreds of voiceover projects, including animation, computer games, radio dramas, and corporate learning modules. In 2019, she wrote and produced her first play, Pigeons, which sold out in London to five-star reviews. Raised in both Surrey and the States, she currently lives with her family in Kent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

I came to this latest book by Catherynne Valente (wonderful storytelling goddess that she is) thinking that I'd be reading another short story collection. This is not that. BUT. It does have a new incarnation of biggest novelette in The Future is Blue from the collection by the same name, updated and......more

Goodreads review by Trish

This is the follow-up book to The Future Is Blue which I reviewed *here*. In this little book, we get the titular story of that book (probably as a reminder or for readers who weren't able to get a copy of the former book since it's a limited edition) plus the titular one that details the further ad......more

Goodreads review by JasonA

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps and left the Earth covered in endless oceans. Despite the odds, pockets of humanity have managed to survive on the water's surface. Tetley was born in Garbagetown, a floating landfill the size of Texas. She is despised by all of her neighbors for somethin......more