BORDERTOWN: Where Elves met Rock'n'Roll

[ellenkushner]

Today's Question:

Have you ever read any books in the Terri Windling shared-world "Bordertown" series?

If you're a writer, do you think they influenced your work in any way?

If you're curious, here's Terri's Borderland page, the Wiki page with a list of all stories & authors, and the latest Borderland fan page, with links to lots, including an LJ community, "Bordertown's Journal."

It amazes me to realize that I had a story in every single one of the 4 volumes (while "Charis" has been reprinted most often, I think my favorite is "Hot Water," with "Mockery" a close second.) Will Shetterly & Emma Bull wrote entire Borderland novels. And there are even some who say that the current spate of Urban Fantasy (Division of Elves on the Streets) owes a lot to kids who read them at an impressionable age when they first came out. What say you?

Comments

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

yes indeed. i loved all those books.

(i don't know if i count as a writer or not in y'all's terms, but most of my recent fiction has been set in a not-entirely-unlike-bordertown place, if the borders had been erased and the town happened to be greater camberville :)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

One of the fun things about the series was that each of us made it like the city we knew best!