Valdes, Valerie
Entry updated 9 October 2023. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Shub-Niggurath's Witnesses" in She Walks in Shadows (anth 2015) edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R Stiles (see Cthulhu Mythos). She is more direct sf interest for the Eva Innocente sequence of Space Operas beginning with Chilling Effect (2019); the protagonist of the series, female captain of a freelance cargo-carrying Starship, finds herself and her multi-species crew caught up in interstellar intrigues which they deal with exuberantly (see Humour) as they ricochet from central parts of the home galaxy outwards to free-for-all Rimworlds. The third instalment, Fault Tolerance (2022), ups the ante, as Alien monoliths prepare to annihilate Homo sapiens across the planets. All turns out complicatedly well. [JC]
Valerie Valdes
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works
series
Eva Innocente
- Chilling Effect (New York: Harper Voyager, 2019) [Eva Innocente: pb/Julie Dillon]
- Prime Deceptions (New York: Harper Voyager, 2020) [Eva Innocente: pb/Julie Dillon]
- Fault Tolerance (New York: Harper Voyager, 2022) [Eva Innocente: pb/Julie Dillon]
individual titles
- Where Peace Is Lost (New York: HarperVoyager, 2023) [pb/Serena Malyon]
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