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Mind the Gap by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon, Bantam, 2008, $12.
THERE'S something I really enjoy about the conceit of hidden people living on the edge of our own world, secret either because we don't pay enough attention to notice them, or because they're so good at staying off our radar.
It would seem that tiny people would have the easiest time staying hidden. As a kid I loved books like Mary Norton's The Borrowers series, or T. H. White's Mistress Masham's Repose with their diminutive characters living behind our baseboards or in secret cities. But there have been many books about full-sized hidden characters as well. In Christopher Fowler's Roofworld, the people live their lives never coming down to ground level. Neil Caiman's characters have a whole other world below ground in Neverwhere.
I suppose the reason those last two examples came to mind is because Christopher Gulden's and Tim Lebbon's Mind the Gap is...