Permeable Borders
2012
First Published
4.29
Average Rating
282
Number of Pages
Nina Kiriki Hoffman has published over 200 stories. Her stories have gained many honors, including the Writers of the Future award, Locus Award, and the Nebula Award. This current collection collects 16 of her more recent stories, as well as earlier work not previously collected. It also includes a previously unpublished story. FINDING HOME: Key Signatures The Weight of Wishes FAIRY TALES: How I Came to Marry a Herpetologist Strikes of the Heart Switched FINDING EACH OTHER: Sourheart Inner Child Home For Christmas Anger Management Trees Perpetual of Sleep Hostile Takeover Here We Come A-Wandering PERMEABLE BORDERS: The Wisdom of Disaster A Fault Against the Dead The Trouble with the Truth HOME: Gone to Heaven Shouting
Avg Rating
4.29
Number of Ratings
178
5 STARS
48%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
13%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
1%
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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.
