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  • The charm of the "mountain magic" genre is that communities like the Tufa have traits all but vanished from the modern world that we nostalgically wish might be preserved.

    In Brief: Science Fiction 2011

  • In the small town of Needsville live the storied Tufa.

    In Brief: Science Fiction 2011

  • In Mr. Bledsoe's haunting novel, the outside world is forcing its attention on the Tufa, because one of them, unusually, served in Iraq and is coming back a heroine.

    In Brief: Science Fiction 2011

  • There's the Bad Boy, a Tufa, and Mr. Nice Guy, a Methodist preacher trying to get the Tufa into church.

    In Brief: Science Fiction 2011

  • Tufa blocks were used as building material -- could the original sense have been something like "stone block"?

    The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009

  • "Tufa blocks were used as building material -- could the original sense have been something like 'stone block'?"

    The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009

  • Tufa studied the surface of the polished granite table, tracing patterns in the gray stone that only he could see.

    Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

  • Tufa™s brown eyes, normally mild and patient, hardened.

    Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

  • He glanced at Tufa, the Klar™s thane and ruler of the only clan of hill dwarves now living in Thorbardin.

    Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

  • Tufa, combed his fingers through his red beard in a way carefully chosen not to offer insult, but neither to offer encouragement.

    Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988

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