Life on the Border

by Craig Shaw Gardner, Charles de Lint, Ellen Kushner, Midori Snyder · 1991

Book 3 of the Borderland series

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All new stories by Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey, Charles de Lint, Craig Shaw Gardener, Michael Korolenko, Ellen Kushner, Will Shetterly, Midori Snyder, and Terri Windling (writing as Bellamy Bach); song lyrics by Emma Bull. Cover art by Rick Berry (Tor Books edition, 1991).

"Life on the Border turns the volume to 11, cranking up the energy and enthusiasm as the authors really hit their groove. It's like the song right before intermission, when the music's clearly gotten into the blood, and everyone's dancing....[T]his volume is one of the best in an outstanding series."— The Greenman Review.

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NOTE; all the "Bellamy Bach" stories in the Borderland series were written by the editor/Borderland founder, Terri Windling.

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Genre
fantasyurban fantasyscience fiction
Themes
fae
Audience
young adult
Form
short stories

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