2016
First Published
4.06
Average Rating
76
Number of Pages
In the novelette "Mud," Laza, a girl in an established colony on a fringe planet, pays attention to the call of the mud out her back door, with strange results. In "Discards," scavenging children on a junk-yard planet find strange things in medical waste. In "Egg Shells," Fern tries on a new shape every so often in search of the permanent shape she'll choose at sixteen. In "Gateway Night," Fassi, a nurse at a hospital on a multi-species space station, has a weird encounter on the only holiday the Four Known Races share.
Avg Rating
4.06
Number of Ratings
18
5 STARS
33%
4 STARS
44%
3 STARS
17%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
0%
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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.
