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Permeable Borders
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 It also includes a previously unpublished story.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
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Finding Home
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The Weight of Wishe...more
Published
June 2012
by Fairwood Press
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Hoffman writes these stories in a voice similar to that of Zenna Henderson. I can easily compare this story collection to "The Anything Box".
Permeable Borders has a quiet voice, it slips the chains binding down your sense of wonder. It allows you to view the reality of the stories from outside the box. One paragraph caught at my heart.. from How I came to Marry a Herpetologist... "I thought of my diamond-and-pearl-speaking sister, who had married a prince. What a beauty she was. How could any ma...more
Permeable Borders has a quiet voice, it slips the chains binding down your sense of wonder. It allows you to view the reality of the stories from outside the box. One paragraph caught at my heart.. from How I came to Marry a Herpetologist... "I thought of my diamond-and-pearl-speaking sister, who had married a prince. What a beauty she was. How could any ma...more
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If you loved Red Heart of Memories as much as I did, you must read this collection. Various short stories, many with the characters from RHoM and it's sequels, including Edward and Matt, filling in the gaps I've always known were there. Beautiful, sometimes sad stories, with a theme of home and kin. I particularly liked the retelling of Cinderella. Note that her first collection, Courting Disasters, is really hard to find these days, and scoop this one up. (And if you have a copy of that you are...more
I'm attempting to avoid YA books because I am looking for more "meat on the bones" and to avoid the angst that is often part of the characters personalities. I'm also trying to avoid short-stories. I don't want cupcakes anymore, I want the whole cake. This book breaks both those rules but I am a fan of NKH and when I was on the hunt to organize my knowledge of the Matt Black stories, I read that there were many combined here.
I am very happy I read this book of short stories. I got to meet some...more
I am very happy I read this book of short stories. I got to meet some...more
I read this book for the Endeavour Award - actually I asked the library to buy it and they eventually did. But the reality is I will buy it eventually anyway - first because I love this author's work and secondly because it really is a great book. This is a collection of short stories - and it is a fairly small book - there are no novellas here - just 16 short stories. But just enough of them are interconnected that you can almost see them as being in the same universe. In fact it kind of has a...more
If you are new to this author (like I was), this seems a terrible place to start. While the writing is certainly capable and the story ideas are interesting, I felt like I was getting the "B sides" of the discarded ideas from things that didn't fit into her novels. Which might be great if you were already invested in these characters.
I did enjoy a few of the stories, but by the end of the collection I was regretting my commitment to finish it.
There was a good short story posted on tor dot com...more
I did enjoy a few of the stories, but by the end of the collection I was regretting my commitment to finish it.
There was a good short story posted on tor dot com...more
"What a great book! Excellent stories that tie themselves together so very well. Some of these stories could easily be expanded into their own books or series. An excellent vehicle for strong young female leads."
Feb 04, 2013
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These tales remind me why I enjoy reading Hoffman. There are some that I have read but most were new to me. I enjoyed sitting and reading one tale at a time, extending the time I could spend in her worlds.
Gorgeous magical and heartfelt stories.
I love NKH's work, and this collection is no exception. Like much of what she writes, it combines the ideas of magic and finding home. It starts out a little slowly, but I enjoyed most of the stories. As you get further in, characters start to reappear and stories become more intertwined. If you've read NKH's novels, you'll recognize some of the characters, notably Matt and Edmond.
Such a treat for NKH fans to have her older stories collected in a volume. Now I think it's time for me to reread h...more
Such a treat for NKH fans to have her older stories collected in a volume. Now I think it's time for me to reread h...more
Lovely writing, and interesting characters, especially if you enjoy modern fantasy. One of the few authors whose words I often enjoy reading slowly, even when the pace of the story wants me to rush through it to see what happens next. Some of the phrasing and word choices had me re-reading sentences simply because I enjoyed the idea of them.
Amazing collection of great stories that span a number of recurring characters & series for NKH. Highly recommended if you like stories of human foibles among fantastic set dressing.
Lovely short stories. Will have to check out more of her writing.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman always delivers. It's great to meet new characters and re-visit old ones. Good for my soul.
the only new-to-this collection is "Anger Management"
AWESOME to have a new collection from Nina...
AWESOME to have a new collection from Nina...
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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 o...more
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