Series
Chronicles of the Borderlands
Ellen Kushner, Terri Windling, Will Shetterly, Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, Midori Snyder, Delia Sherman, Holly Black, Mark Alan Arnold, Michael Korolenko, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Annette Curtis Klause, Caroline Stevermer, Cassandra Clare, Catherynne M. Valente, Christopher Barzak, Cory Doctorow, Craig Shaw Gardner, Donnárd Sturgis, Elisabeth Kushner, Ellen Steiber, Felicity Savage, Global News Service, Janni Lee Simner, Kara Dalkey, Micole Sudberg, Nalo Hopkinson, Patricia A. McKillip, Sara Ryan, Steven Brust, Steven R. Boyett & Tim Pratt · 3 novels · 12 novellas · 13 novelettes · 26 short stories · 5 anthologies · 1986–2011
Chronicles of the Borderlands gathers the Bordertown shared-world anthology series created by Terri Windling, beginning with the original Borderland/Bordertown anthology (1986) and continuing through further volumes contributed by many fantasy and SF writers, including Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Ellen Kushner, Will Shetterly and Patricia A. McKillip. It is set in Bordertown, a decaying city on the border between the human World and the Elflands, where magic and technology both malfunction unpredictably. Stories follow different runaways, musicians and misfits who wash up there rather than one continuing cast or plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Wolfboy of Bordertown(3 works)
Map
Chronicles of the Borderlands at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s11
- 1990s33
- 2000s0
- 2010s15
Shape
3 novels · 12 novellas · 13 novelettes · 26 short stories · 5 anthologies
32 authors
reads like:urban fantasyfaebig citycontemporarymysteriousyoung adult
Mood
Grim and intense: 55% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book20 of 59 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Life on the Borderdarkest
- Welcome to Bordertownbrightest
- Rain and Thundercalmest
- Elsewheremost intense