Mathemagics
Author: Margaret Ball
 
Just because mild-mannered suburban mom Riva Konneva was warrior woman from an alternate reality didn't mean she got out of going on field trips. Nor could she just slash and hack her way through parent-teachers meetings, as she earnestly desired when confronted with the administrators who tried to tell her her child belonged in program for the emotionally disturbed because she showed too much initiative. No, Riva had come to the Planet of the Paper-Pushers to give her daughter the kind of education she, a simple girl from the mountains, had never received, and now she was going to have to learn a whole new way of fighting. With paper . . . On the other hand, sometimes, such as when old enemies arrive out of nowhere, intent on slaughtering one's children, paper just isn't enough  . . .
 
BAEN 1st DECEMBER 1996
ISBN:9780671877552