Borderland (book series)

Title:	Borderland
Creator:	created and edited by Terri Windling, edited by Mark Alan Arnold, Delia Sherman, Holly Black, Ellen Kushner
Date(s):	1986-1994
Medium:	print
Fandom:	urban fantasy, young adult
Language:	English
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Borderland is a series (five anthologies and three novels) of urban fantasy, young adult stories.

Bordertown is the name of the shared universe created by Terri Windling.

The topics explored in the series are disenfranchised youth, gang violence, race relations, and miscegenation, and class conflict.

1980's popular music is a major influence.

Some of the many authors who wrote for the anthologies were Cory Doctorow , Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, Ellen Kushner, Will Shetterly, Patricia A. McKillip, Terri Windling, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Jane Yolen, and Neil Gaiman.

Two of the novels were written by Will Shetterly.

Fan Comments

1995

Re knowing an original universe from a "poached" one. It has happened to me that I didn't. There are fragments of fan stories written in the Borderlands universe (a shared universe generally overseen by Terri Windling & Will Shetterly, I think). But I had never read it, never heard of it, and I read my fan characters placed in what (for all I knew) was just a cool A/U. I later saw one of the books (and it was interesting enough for me to pick up) and I saw that what I had been giving the author credit for was actually lifted from the books.