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]
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]
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.
Cover of Bending the Landscape: Fantasy , art by Kevin Murphy .
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 Holly Wade Matter
Gestures Too Late on a Gravel Road – shortstory by Mark W. Tiedemann
The Fall of the Kings (The World of Riverside ) – novelette by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
Cloudmaker – shortstory by Charlee Jacob
Magicked Tricks – novelette by K. L. Berac
The Sound of Angels – shortstory by Lisa S. Silverthorne
The King's Folly – shortstory by James A. Moore
Beside the Well – shortstory by Leslie What
The Home Town Boy – shortstory by B. J. Thrower
Expression of Desire – shortstory by Dominick Cancilla
There Are Things Which Are Hidden from the Eyes of the Everyday – shortstory by Simon Sheppard
Full Moon and Empty Arms – shortstory by M. W. Keiper
Mahu – novelette by Jeff Verona
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
Cover of Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction , art by J K Potter .
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 Denise Lopes Heald
The Rendez-Vous – shortfiction by Nancy Johnston
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 Richard A. Bamberg
On Vacation – shortfiction by Ralph A. Sperry
The City in Morning – shortstory by Carrie Richerson
State of Nature – shortstory by Nancy Kress
The Beautiful People – shortfiction by Wendy Rathbone
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
Cover of Bending the Landscape: Horror , art by J K Potter .
Published in 2001.[3]