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Athena Villaverde

Goodreads Author

Born

The United States

Website

http://www.athenavillaverde.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Bizarro

Influences

David Bowie, Hayao Miyazaki, Francesca Lia Block, Anais Nin, Jim Henso ...more

Member Since

November 2009

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Athena Villaverde writes sexy and weird bizarro fantasy tales, often set in wastelands populated by colorful and magical characters. Part cyber-punk, part urban fantasy. Cute and disturbing.

Her interests include Tarot, knitting, fetish fashion, kawaii noir, chaos magick, hair dye, drawing and painting, dancing, Japanese anime, cult films, genetic mutations, parasites, survivalism, cosplay, steampunk, gothic lolita, mythology, burlesque, body modification, new wave, ska, punk rock.

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Clockwork Girl

Urban fairy tales for the weird girl in all of us.

Athena Villaverde is a brave new voice in the world of offbeat young adult fiction. Like a combination of Francesca Lia Block, Charles de Lint, Kathe Koja, Tim Burton, and Hayao Miyazaki, her stories are cute, kinky, edgy, magical, provocative, and strange, full of poetic imagery and vicious sexuality. Clockwork Girl is a collect

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Athena Villaverde’s books

Average rating: 3.95 · 342 ratings · 79 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Starfish Girl 3.81 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bizarro Starter Kit by Cameron Pierce (Goodreads Author), Jeff Burk (Goodreads Author), Cody Goodfellow (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clockwork Girl 4.04 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Athena Villaverde (?)

“She whipped her tentacles away from his fingers decapitating the dead lobster-dog and its body fell from the ceiling fan.”
― Athena Villaverde

tags: bizarro, humor, tentacles

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Athena’s Quotes

“Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.”
― francesca lia block

127 likes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177402 likes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45225 likes

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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