The Borderland series is set in a time and place where the Elflands have returned. Separated from the world we know by the Border, a magical barrier that prevents access between the two except at certain gates, controlled by the Elves. Bordertown is located just on our side of the Border.

The letter from Terri Windling about Bordertown fan fiction

Useful and relevant links:

• The Official Borderland page on Terri Windling's Endicott Studio site.
• The Bloods of House Onyx
• Bordertown Roleplaying. This is where everyone went, but it looks like they've moved on again, to here?.
• The Bordertown Parties Maybe again someday?

What's new! with these pages. 16 August 2003 (What happened to the last seven years?!)

Check out the hopelessly outdated and primitive (but freshly archived) Borderlands Bulletin Board.

Books from the Borderland

• Borderland
• Bordertown
• Double Feature
• Life on the Border
• Elsewhere
• Nevernever
• Finder
• The Essential Bordertown: A Traveller's Guide to the Edge of Faery

Future Bordertown novels and anthologies include (the tenetively titled) The Essential Bordertown: A Traveller's Guide to the Edge of Faery edited by Terri Windling and Delia Sherman, with a tentative publication date in 1997; and (a currently untitled) novel by Terri Windling.

Bordertown, as portrayed in the anthologies Borderland, Bordertown, and Life on the Border, as well as in the novels Elsewhere and Nevernever by Will Shetterly, and Finder by Emma Bull, was created by Terri Windling with creative inspiration from Mark Alan Arnold, and fleshed out by Bellamy Bach, Steven R. Boyett, Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey, Charles de Lint, Craig Shaw Gardner, Robert Gould, Zohra Greenhaugh, Phil Hale, Michael Korolenko, Ellen Kushner, Will Shetterly, and Midori Snyder. The series is produced by The Endicott Studio, and is currently available from Tor Books.

Questions, comments, criticisms, and contributions (most especially reviews or essays) are welcome. Please email me.