Bordertown: a city on the Boundary between the human world as well as the elfin world. A location where neither magic nor technology can be counted on, where elf and human kids run away to end up. The Way from the world to the Border has been obstructed for thirteen long years . . Now the Way is open once again – and Bordertown welcomes a fresh set of seekers and dreamers, misfits and manufacturers, to taste life on the Border. Listed below are thirteen interconnected stories, one graphic story, and eight poems – new work by some of today’s best urban fantasy, dream, and slipstream writers: Christopher Barzak, Holly Dark, Steven Brust, Emma Bull, Cassandra Clare, Charles de Lint, Cory Doctorow, Amal El-Mohtar, Neil Gaiman, Nalo Hopkinson, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Annette Curtis Klause, Ellen Kushner, Patricia McKillip, Dylan Meconis, Tim Pratt, Sara Ryan, Delia Sherman, Can Shetterly, Janni Lee Simner, Catherynne M. Valente, Terri Windling, and Jane Yolen.