{"id":395,"date":"2011-05-31T03:11:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T07:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:47:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T02:47:02","slug":"bordertown-lives-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/395\/bordertown-lives-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordertown Lives! (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Asprin\">Robert Lynn Asprin<\/a> is part\u00adly to blame. Bob Asprin, who as Yang the Nau\u00adse\u00adat\u00ading found\u00aded the Great Dark Horde as an insti\u00adtu\u00adtion in the Soci\u00adety for Cre\u00adative Anachro\u00adnism. Bob Asprin. who found\u00aded the Klin\u00adgon Diplo\u00admat\u00adic Corps to pro\u00advide secu\u00adri\u00adty (and a means for peo\u00adple to dress up as Klin\u00adgons) at the ear\u00adly Star Trek con\u00adven\u00adtions. Bob Asprin, who was an ear\u00adly mem\u00adber of the Dor\u00adsai Irregulars.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Asprin, who helped cre\u00adate what is now referred as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shared_world\">\u201cshared worlds\u201d<\/a> concept.<\/p>\n<p>He and then-wife <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lynn_Abbey\">Lynn Abbey<\/a> man\u00adaged to con\u00advince sev\u00ader\u00adal oth\u00ader promi\u00adnent authors, includ\u00ading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poul_Anderson\">Poul Ander\u00adson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley\">Mar\u00adi\u00adon Zim\u00admer Bradley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Brunner_%28novelist%29\">John Brun\u00adner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C._J._Cherryh\" title=\"C. J. Cherryh\">C. J. Cher\u00adryh<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_J._Offutt\" title=\"Andrew J. Offutt\">Andrew J. Offutt<\/a>, into con\u00adtribut\u00ading to a series of short sto\u00adry col\u00adlec\u00adtions under the com\u00admon title of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thieve%27s_World\"><em>\u201cThieve\u2019s World\u201d<\/em><\/a>, whose suc\u00adcess begat a num\u00adber of oth\u00ader \u201cshared worlds\u201d col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtions. The most famous is prob\u00ada\u00adbly the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wild_Cards\"><em>\u201cWild Cards\u201d<\/em><\/a> series, in which an alien retro-virus released by acci\u00addent on Earth grants the for\u00adtu\u00adnate few infect\u00aded with it super abil\u00adi\u00adties while the vast major\u00adi\u00adty died in var\u00adied and hor\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading&nbsp;ways.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few oth\u00aders, but the one I am refer\u00adring to in the title, is <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Borderland_Series\">\u201cBor\u00adder\u00adlands\u201d<\/a><\/em>. <em>\u201cBor\u00adder\u00adlands\u201d<\/em> is set in a world where the Mun\u00addane and Faerie have crossed paths, result\u00ading the nat\u00adur\u00adal exten\u00adsion of the term <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urban_fantasy\">\u201curban fan\u00adta\u00adsy\u201d<\/a>. Vast areas in the mid\u00addle of the great\u00adest cities are now on the bor\u00adder between the two worlds, where the good and the bad of both worlds mix and plot and scheme, where both mag\u00adic and sci\u00adence work unpre\u00addictably, where rock&amp;roll bat\u00adtles with Fae melodies and Faerie steeds race motor\u00adcy\u00adcles, where aris\u00adto\u00adcrat\u00adic and unpre\u00addictable Faerie go slum\u00adming and bewil\u00addered and bewitched mor\u00adtals come to make their liv\u00ading. Cre\u00adat\u00aded by edi\u00adtor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terri_Windling\">Ter\u00adri Win\u00addling<\/a> (and how can I not appre\u00adci\u00adate some\u00adthing by some\u00adone who shares my first name), the <em>\u201cBor\u00adder\u00adlands\u201d<\/em> shared world pro\u00adduced two sto\u00adry col\u00adlec\u00adtions in 1986 and anoth\u00ader in 1991, then anoth\u00ader in 1998. Now, in 2011, anoth\u00ader <em>\u201cBor\u00adder\u00adlands\u201d<\/em> col\u00adlec\u00adtion is to be pub\u00adlished, and I am look\u00ading for\u00adward to&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p>Sto\u00adries that might con\u00adtain fae enchant\u00adments and <em>glam\u00adouries<\/em> on unsus\u00adpect\u00ading mor\u00adtals? You bet I\u2019m look\u00ading for\u00adward to&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p>For more infor\u00adma\u00adtion, see the <em>Bor\u00adder\u00adtown Blog<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lynn Asprin is part\u00adly to blame. Bob Asprin, who as Yang the Nau\u00adse\u00adat\u00ading found\u00aded the Great Dark Horde as an insti\u00adtu\u00adtion in the Soci\u00adety for Cre\u00adative Anachro\u00adnism. Bob Asprin.\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/bordertown-lives-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">\u21d2 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cBor\u00adder\u00adtown Lives! 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