by The WandererAuthor: Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Space Opera, Literary Science Fiction
Series: Standalone
Pages: 432
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In the early twentieth century humans have colonized all nine of the planets in our solar system and most of the moons. Film is a newly developed form of art, but despite the abilities to create “talkies” most films remain silent in order to avoid paying the Edison family for their copyright patents. Severin Unck is the daughter of the famous director Percy Unck; she disappears while making her last film on Venus, leaving all who knew her to wonder about her fate.