Invasive Species
2013
First Published
4.17
Average Rating
21
Number of Pages
Random Delaney is an exterminator. She gets rid of pests on spaceships. When she's hired to kill metal mites on the cruise ship Evander, a project so simple she brings her daughter along, things go sideways. A 5200-word short story, originally published in A GIRL'S GUIDE TO GUNS AND MONSTERS, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerry Hughes, DAW, (2010).
Avg Rating
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Number of Ratings
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Author
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Author · 49 books
Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s first solo novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones (1993), won the Bram Stoker Award for first novel; her second novel, The Silent Strength of Stones (1995) was a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. A Red Heart of Memories (1999, part of her “Matt Black” series), nominated for a World Fantasy Award, was followed by sequel Past the Size of Dreaming in 2001. Much of her work to date is short fiction, including “Matt Black” novella “Unmasking” (1992), nominated for a World Fantasy Award; and “Matt Black” novelette “Home for Christmas” (1995), nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon awards. In addition to writing, Hoffman has taught, worked part-time at a B. Dalton bookstore, and done production work on The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. An accomplished fiddle player, she has played regularly at various granges near her home in Eugene, Oregon.
