Edited by Greg Ketter. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-60701-358-7
Ketter’s collection of fantasy stories celebrating bookstores, first published in 2002, begins with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and contains 15 original stories plus Harlan Ellison’s “The Cheese Stands Alone.” The stories aren’t spectacular, but...
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Author . Ace $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-441-00975-6
Stoker winner Hoffman attains a new level of maturity and complexity with this coming-of-age contemporary fantasy. Unlike her charismatic, beautiful mother and her four remarkable siblings, Gypsum, the middle daughter of the magical LaZelle family...
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Author . Tachyon $14.95 (171p) ISBN 978-1-892391-38-4
This weird novel of alien contact from Stoker-winner Hoffman (A Fistful of Sky
) careens like a pinball among the bumpers of science fiction, young adult literature and softcore porn. Soon after just-barely-adolescent Kaslin and his family join the...
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Author . Ace $24.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-441-01468-2
Hoffman (Spirits That Walk in Shadow
) infuses this entertaining supernatural thriller with cozy, sexually explicit scenes of reawakening and personal growth. Opal Lazelle’s magical gifts and her talent as a makeup artist have earned her a...
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Author Ace Books $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-441-00651-9
It's a pleasure to see a new adult novel from Hoffman, even a lesser work like this one. Her debut novel, The Thread that Binds, won a Stoker for best first novel, but of late she has been writing for R.L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street series. This...
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Author Ace Books $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-441-00802-5
The New Age-y na vet of the plot and characters, as much as the easy and inexplicable magic, reduce Hoffman's latest to a read for the initiated only. The sexless witch Matilda ""Mattie"" Black and her magically gifted companion, Edmund Reynolds,...
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman. Fairwood (www.fairwoodpress.com), $16.99 trade paper (282p) ISBN 978-1-933846-32-3
Over the past 30 years, Hoffman has received more than 30 nominations for a wide variety of awards; her wins include a Stoker for The Thread That Binds the Bones and a Nebula for “Trophy Wives.” This collection of 16 fantastical stories, drawn from...
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