This book had a seriously formative impact on me. <3

Review to come :)

Mine is by Signet. ISBN matches.

Още четири разказа от Бурдюрландия излезли през същата 1986 година. Отново различни автори, имаме и комбинации по двама на разказ. Бавно, дразнещо бавно, развиват света на Граничната земя.Danceland - Emma Bull и Will Shetterly - Група много симпатични герои, работещи в заведение в Бордертаун. Едно убийство, в което е обвинен един от тях и приятелите му трябва да го измъкнат. Малко запъртясала криминална линия. Стилът на двамата автори е различен и си личи много, до толкова, че стои като два отде...

The Elflands have returned to the real world and the border between both has become a dangerous and magical place. This anthology written by several different authors has elves in motorcycle gangs, rich kids from Dragon's Tooth Hill, magically-addictive river water, punk artists in Soho, and runaways on heroes' journeys. The collection of eccentric and original characters and the detailed world create a genre all its own. Ever wondered what it would be like if Tolkien's elves returned to the mod...

Here's the thing about Bordertown: it's more than it appears on the surface. As a shared world project, it's a solid one - the premise is interesting (for new arrivals: Fairyland has returned, causing various calamities and upheavals, and creating a 'border' region between the two worlds, where neither human machines nor elven magic work reliably), the writers work well together, and the voices were fresh and compelling at the time. They still are, more or less, but that's not why we love it so

For some reason I was thinking about this book recently, and felt the need to get some comments out there.Four stories, one setting. Bordertown, the mixing pot between our world and faerie, where elves, humans and halfbloods have created a world of their own.I was so in love with the story "Mockery" when I first read it, both in love and disapointed because it does some beautiful things but also feels like the authors didn't want to spend too much time rethinking and perfecting this little gem.

"You knew, knew, that if you could just run away to one of those places, you'd become someone else, someone wonderful, and wonderful things would happen to you."

I picked up my first Borderland book as a pre-teen, scouring the shelves of the library in my grandparents' town on the Oregon coast. I don't remember which one it was--probably Borderland; that cover looks familiar--and I loved it. The world of Bordertown, halfway between the World and Faerie, where spellboxes power motorcycles and elves run in gangs down the abandoned streets of Soho, utterly captivated me. It was everything that I thought I wanted to grow up to be. Staying up until dawn, loud...

Danceland (Emma Bull and Will Shetterly) is a pretty fun urban fantasy murder mystery story! The other three stories are skippable (of course I read them anyway), I found the writing pretty childish (describing outfits, gratuitous ~edgy~ curse words, wish fulfillment) and the content not really original enough for me to look past the writing. Danceland works though because it has a lot of odd and cool characters and sweeps you into flashy seedy 80s club world.

Bordertown, an anthology of short stories edited by Terri Windling, has the distinction of being both a sparkling example of a shared-world concept and was a hugely influential excursion into the genre that would become urban fantasy. Written in the 1980s, this collection of short fiction marries high-fantasy constructs (elves, magic, etc) with punk rock sensibilities. The conceit is as follows: a long, long time ago magic was part of our world. For reasons no one now remembers, the Elflands dep...

The 'read' dates on this review are misleading. I first read this series when I was a teen, although I somehow managed not to review any of them. Now that I'm an adult and the world has lost its luster, I'm re-reading some old favorites, and the siren song of the escapism of Bordertown is strong. If I was reviewing this book based on pure nostalgia and escapism, it'd rate a solid 5 stars from me. Bordertown was exactly the place I craved as a teenager, to mingle with elves and magic on dirty, da...

A group of fantasy writers created the shared universe in which elves and humans met, and thus Bordertown was born. The city right off of the literal border of Fairy, it's home to misfits, outcasts, weirdos and poseurs of all types. The writing itself is uneven and often subpar, but the idea is one close to my heart, so I love this series anyway.

My very favorite shared universe, about a city on the blurred edge of earth and faerie, and the people who find their way there. One of many anthologies and stand-alone novels.

I particularly liked this anthology. It develops on from the stories in the first anthology and allows us to really connect with the characters.A delight!

This is three shorter stories filled with teenage angst. I had heard about this series through another novel and thought that I'd check it out. It was just okay.

I read this when it first came out in the 80's and I really dug the urban fantasy milieu that it helped popularize. I've been on a will Sheterly kick lately and several of his books are in this universe so I re-familiarized myself with this. Grunge elves and punk half-humans was so transgressive and cool at the time, it's still fairly fresh but the change in me and my reaction is somewhat startling. The "poignancy of our vanished beautiful youth" that pervades the stories just irks me, but maybe...

I had a hard time rating this one because the stories are so irregular. I liked the first and last one, and didn't care for the two in the middle. Bordertown is a shared setting for different writers work from. There are different neighbourhoods and what I loved most was the magical and non magical creatures sharing their space in a place where neither magic nor technology work the way they are expected. It's a kind of no-man's land where everything is possible. Favorite characters are Orient, H...

In this anthology of Bordertown, the mythology is deeper as the authors fill out the world that they created and other authors join in. Bordertown is full of art and music as well as elves with their complex society. A theme that moves through Bordertown is the idea of how do you know where you belong and who you are. In each of the stories, the characters struggle with understanding the choices they must make to be where they fit. From dealing with a murder mystery to a rich, young woman who ta...

'In fact, Elves appear to have deteriorated generally since the coming of humans. If you meet Elves, expect to have to listen for hours while they tell you about this...and conclude by telling you how great numbers of Elves have become so wearied with the thinning of the old golden wonders that they have all departed, departed into the West. This is correct, provided you take it with the understanding that Elves do not say anything quite straight. Many Elves have indeed gone West, to Minnesota a...