The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland -- For a Little While
short fiction 2011 Fairyland
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | short fiction |
| Canon status |
Synopsis
Once upon a time, a girl named Mallow grew very tired of her little country house, where she grew the same enormous luckfigs and love-plantains every summer and studied the same tame and amiable magic; she had mastered the difficult discipline of Dry Magic and longed to know more. In this prequel to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, she leaves the country for the city, meets a number of Winds, Cats and handsome folk, sees something dreadful, and engages, much against her will, in politics of the most muddled kind, defeating King Goldmouth with the help of the Red Wind, Mr Map and many Fairyland friends, and so becomes Fairyland's Good Queen Mallow, in whose shadow September later quests. First published by Tor.com in 2011.
Where it sits
- Universe: Fairyland
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Notes
- Tor.com companion novella/interstitial piece.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Fairyland (standalone work): position 2 of 6: previous The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2011) · next The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (2012)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Circumnavigated_Fairyland_in_a_Ship_of_Her_Own_Making
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairyland_(series)
- Tor.com (the story's publication page)
- Tor.com (publisher description, via Worlds Without End)
- Wikipedia
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