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If you’ve ever wanted to run away to fairyland, this one’s for you! We’re talking about the Borderlands series, a shared-world fantasy series about art, magic, and building the world you want to see. Naturally, we’re talking about the history of Celtic fairy stories, heterotopias, and the roots of urban fantasy.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Dreaming Into Being: Liminal Spaces in Charles de Lint’s Young Adult Mythic Fiction by Terri Doughty
Sacred Cities: Charles de Lint’s Newford Books and the Mythologizing of the North American Urban Landscape by Cat Ashton
Urban Fantasy: A Literature of the Unseen by Stefan Ekman
Bordertown, Behind-the-Scenes by Jane Yolen and Will Shetterly
Running Away to Bordertown by Janni Lee Simner
The Portable Border: Site-Specificity, Art, and the U. S.-Mexico Frontier by Claire F. Fox
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One reply on “Episode 151 – Borderlands Series”
Thought this was about the video game franchise. Instantly disappointed