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Welcome to Bordertown (Borderland, #8)
by

Holly Black (Goodreads Author) (Editor),

Ellen Kushner (Goodreads Author) (Editor),

Cassandra Campbell (Reading),

Terri Windling (Contributor),

MacLeod Andrews (Reading),

Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

Patricia A. McKillip (Contributor),

Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

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John's review

Sep 23, 2011

really liked it

bookshelves: sf-fantasy, children-ya

Nice to see some utopian visions among all the dystopian ones that are filling up the bookshelves now. The poetry here didn't knock my socks off, but the stories are all at least Good, and of particular note are:

Cory Doctorow's, for explaining so credibly why Faerie should be so decisively off limits to humans;
Will Shetterly's, for being such a feelgood tale (Charles de Lint's closer for the same reason);
Janni Lee Simner's, for giving the "Twilight" series such a chilly little...tweak;
The "Fairy Trade" story, presented in graphic format, for giving Border Town some right-on visuals;
Tim Pratt's, for being particularly well told and also for dropping in the literary term "abstinence porn." Wow!

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