Bending the Landscape

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Bending the Landscape is the title of an award-winning series of LGBT-themed anthologies of short speculative fiction edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel.[1][2] Three books were produced between 1997 and 2002, subtitled Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.[3] Each volume won LGBT or genre awards.[4]

Themes[]

The editors asked contributors to "imagine a different landscape... some milieu that had not happened" and then address the theme of Alien or Other, with the Other being a lesbian or gay man. However the stories were not specifically aimed at a gay readership.[5][6] Mark R. Kelly's review in locus magazine bemoaned the anthologies lack of thematic breadth.[5]

Awards[]

The series received awards including a World Fantasy Award,[7] two Lambda Literary Awards, and two Gaylactic Spectrum Awards.[4] Some individual stories contained within were also recipients of awards and nominations.

Bending the Landscape: Fantasy[]

Cover of Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, art by .

Published in 1997.[3]

Awards[]

  • Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
  • World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology

Contents[]

  • Frost Painting – novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
  • Gary, in the Shadows – shortstory by Mark Shepherd
  • Prince of the Dark Green Sea – shortstory by Mark McLaughlin
  • Water Snakes – shortstory by
  • Gestures Too Late on a Gravel Road – shortstory by Mark W. Tiedemann
  • The Fall of the Kings () – novelette by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
  • Cloudmaker – shortstory by Charlee Jacob
  • Magicked Tricks – novelette by
  • The Sound of Angels – shortstory by
  • The King's Folly – shortstory by James A. Moore
  • Beside the Well – shortstory by Leslie What
  • The Home Town Boy – shortstory by
  • Expression of Desire – shortstory by
  • There Are Things Which Are Hidden from the Eyes of the Everyday – shortstory by Simon Sheppard
  • Full Moon and Empty Arms – shortstory by
  • Mahu – novelette by
  • The Stars Are Tears – shortstory by Robin Wayne Bailey
  • Desire – shortstory by Kim Antieau
  • Young Lady Who Loved Caterpillars – shortstory by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • In Memory of – shortstory by Don Bassingthwaite
  • In Mysterious Ways – novelette by Tanya Huff
  • In the House of the Man in the Moon – shortstory by Richard Bowes

Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction[]

Published in 1998.[3]

Awards[]

  • Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
  • Gaylactic Spectrum Award
  • Stonewall Book Award: Literature (finalist)

Contents[]

  • Sex, Guns, and Baptists – shortstory by Keith Hartman
  • Half in Love With Easeful Rock and Roll – shortfiction by Rebecca Ore
  • Powertool – shortfiction by Mark McLaughlin
  • Time Gypsy – novelette by Ellen Klages
  • Lonely Land – shortfiction by
  • The Rendez-Vous – shortfiction by
  • Silent Passion – shortfiction by Kathleen O'Malley
  • Sun-Drenched – shortfiction by Stephen Baxter
  • The Flying Triangle – [Near Space] – shortfiction by Allen Steele
  • Brooks Too Broad For Leaping – shortstory by Charles Sheffield
  • A Real Girl – shortfiction by Shariann Lewitt
  • Dance at the Edge – novelette by L. Timmel Duchamp
  • Love's Last Farewell – shortfiction by
  • On Vacation – shortfiction by
  • The City in Morning – shortstory by Carrie Richerson
  • State of Nature – shortstory by Nancy Kress
  • The Beautiful People – shortfiction by
  • Who Plays With Sin – shortfiction by Don Bassingthwaite
  • Surfaces – shortfiction by Mark W. Tiedemann
  • Stay Thy Flight – shortfiction by Élisabeth Vonarburg
  • Free in Asveroth – shortstory by Jim Grimsley

Bending the Landscape: Horror[]

Cover of Bending the Landscape: Horror, art by .

Published in 2001.[3]

Awards[]

  • Gaylactic Spectrum Award

Contents[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Bending the Landscape – Series Bibliography", Internet Speculative Fiction Database, retrieved 16 October 2008
  2. ^ "Bending the Landscape". 22 October 2008.
  3. ^ a b c d Huber, George K., Anthologies of Gay Fiction, archived from the original on 16 October 2008, retrieved 16 October 2008
  4. ^ a b "The Locus Index to SF Awards", Locus, archived from the original on 24 October 2008, retrieved 16 October 2008
  5. ^ a b "Profiles of Recent Books from reviews in Locus Magazine", Locus, 19 October 1998, retrieved 16 October 2008
  6. ^ Pearson, Wendy (March 1999), "Identifying the Alien: Science Fiction Meets Its Other", Science Fiction Studies, 26, vol. Part 1, no. 77, archived from the original on 4 October 2008, retrieved 16 October 2008
  7. ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2011.

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