Tuesday, June 14, 2011

At the Edge of the World

Holly Black and Ellen Kushner (editors); Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands (Random House; 2011; ISBN 978-0-375-86705-7; cover by Steve Stone).

Made up of: Introduction (Holly Black); Introduction (Terri Windling); Bordertown Basics (uncredited); Welcome to Bordertown (Ellen Kushner and Terri Windling); Shannon's Law (Cory Doctorow); Cruel Sister (Patricia A. McKillip); A Voice Like a Hole (Catherynne M. Valente); Stairs in Her Hair (Amal El-Mohtar); Incunabulum (Emma Bull); Run Back Across the Border (Steven Brust); A Prince of Thirteen Days (Alaya Dawn Johnson); The Sages of Elsewhere (Will Shetterly); Soulja Grrrl: A Long Line Rap (Jane Yolen); Crossings (Janni Lee Simner); Fair Trade (Sara Ryan and Dylan Meconis); Night Song for a Halfie (Jane Yolen); Our Stars, Our Selves (Tim Pratt); Elf Blood (Annette Curtis Klause); Ours Is the Prettiest (Nalo Hopkinson); The Wall (Delia Sherman); We Do Not Come in Peace (Christopher Barzak); A Borderland Jump-Rope Rhyme (Jane Yolen); The Rowan Gentleman (Holly Black and Cassandra Clare); The Song of the Song (Neil Gaiman); A Tangle of Green Men (Charles de Lint).

Counts as eight (8) entries in the 2011 Year in Shorts.

Associational: Geek's Guide to the Galaxy interviews Ellen Kushner on the new anthology (and other subjects). SF Signal interviews Holly Black on the new anthology (and other subjects). Strange Horizons interviews Holly Black, Ellen Kushner and Terri Windling. Companion article in Strange Horizons.

Addendum: List of Borderlands stories (less the new anthology). Another list of the books, including current and future print status. Placemarker site. New official site. List of associated sites.

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