A review by deirdrekoala
Welcome to Bordertown by Tim Pratt, Jane Yolen, Catherynne M. Valente, Christopher Barzak, Cassandra Campbell, Cory Doctorow, Annette Curtis Klause, Dylan Meconis, Will Shetterly, Holly Black, Janni Lee Simner, Cassandra Clare, Delia Sherman, Steven Brust, MacLeod Andrews, Patricia A. McKillip, Dounya El-Mohtar, Charles de Lint, Ellen Kushner, Ellen Kushner, Amal El-Mohtar, Neil Gaiman, Nalo Hopkinson, Sara Ryan, Terri Windling, Emma Bull, Alaya Dawn Johnson

4.0

I'm still enjoying my forays into Bordertown. This newer collection posits that the way to the Borderlands has been closed for the past 13 years, during which time only 13 days passed within the Borderlands (kind of a Rip Van Winkle thing). As with any collection, I found some of the stories more absorbing than others, but I genuinely enjoyed all of them. "Shannon's Law" by [a:Cory Doctorow|12581|Cory Doctorow|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1212526024p2/12581.jpg] is very clever--it goes into great detail about an elaborate scheme to get the Elflands online (put simply), without any human being able to cross that border. "The Rowan Gentlemen" by [a:Holly Black|25422|Holly Black|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1261867163p2/25422.jpg] and [a:Cassandra Clare|150038|Cassandra Clare|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1270502031p2/150038.jpg] is a short, fast-paced mystery whose main action takes place in a theatre. "A Tangle of Green Men" by [a:Charles de Lint|8456|Charles de Lint|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1269735259p2/8456.jpg] is a beautifully put together story about love and grief. These stories are my personal favorites, but the anthology as a whole was a well-balanced collection with an intriguing cast of intertwining characters--some of whom are familiar from other stories of the Borderlands, and many of whom are people I'd really like to know.