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Borderland: Where Magic Meets Rock & Roll (Borderlands, Bk 1)
Borderland Where Magic Meets Rock Roll - Borderlands, Bk 1 Author:Terri Windling, Mark Alan Arnold The land of fairy returns, and it's a messy reunification at best... — The land between the normal human world and fairy is called "The Border" a place where one can easily become lost--or found. In the rements of evacuated cities from this rebirth the two worlds come together in Bordertown, where magic and technology don't alwa... more »ys work. The town is teeming with the outcasts, run-aways and dreamers of both fairy and earth children.
In “Prodigy,” a man’s musical talent becomes a literal form of magic which rages through Bordertown.
“Gray” tells the story of a runaway girl with strange magical abilities who trades her human street gang for the friendship of a well-meaning if vapid elf girl. While Gray toys with the problematic position of halfies in Bordertown, Gray is revealed to be fully human (though still in possession of magic).
“Stick” confronts the precarious lives of halfies more directly—when Stick, Bordertown’s resident martial artist/vigilante, saves a halfie girl from a gang beat down, she ends up saving him in turn with the help of Farrel Din (an elvish wizard) and the Horn Dance (a rock band).
“Charis” takes us up the Hill, to where the dignitaries and wealthy live. Here we get a glimpse of interworld politics when Charis, the naive daughter of two human politicians, gets dragged into a complicated elfin plot.« less