Bending the Landscape

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, subtitled Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, between 1997 and 2002.[3]

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.

Each of the volumes won LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) or genre awards, including winning a World Fantasy Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and two Gaylactic Spectrum Awards;[4] some individual stories contained within were also recipients of awards and nominations.[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

Each of the volumes won LGBT or genre awards, including winning 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 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

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 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

Bending the Landscape: Horror

Cover of Bending the Landscape: Horror, art by J K Potter.

Published in 2001.[3]

Awards

  • Gaylactic Spectrum Award

Contents

  • Coyote Love – shortstory by Kraig Blackwelder
  • Explanations Are Clear – novelette by L. Timmel Duchamp
  • What Are You Afraid Of? – shortstory by Simon Sheppard
  • The Lost Homeland – novelette by Cynthia Ward
  • The Man Who Picks the Chamomile – shortstory by Mark McLaughlin
  • Love on a Stick – novelette by Carrie Richerson
  • Triangle – shortstory by Ellen Klages
  • Memorabilia – novelette by Holly Wade Matter
  • Blood Requiem – shortstory by Gary Bowen
  • In the Days Still Left – novelette by Brian A. Hopkins and James Van Pelt
  • Broken Canes – shortstory by Alexi Smart
  • Keep the Faith – shortstory by A. J. Potter
  • The WereSlut of Avenue A – shortstory by Leslie What
  • Kindred – novelette by Alexis Glynn Latner
  • 'Til Death – shortstory by Barbara Hambly
  • If I Could See Lazarus Rising – novelette by Kathleen O'Malley
  • The Waltz of the Epileptic Penguins – shortstory by Keith Hartman
  • Passing – novelette by Mark W. Tiedemann

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bending the Landscape – Series Bibliography", Internet Speculative Fiction Database, retrieved 16 October 2008
  2. ↑ http://www.nicolagriffith.com/bending.html
  3. 1 2 3 4 Huber, George K., Anthologies of Gay Fiction, archived from the original on 16 October 2008, retrieved 16 October 2008
  4. 1 2 3 "The Locus Index to SF Awards", Locus, archived from the original on 24 October 2008, retrieved 16 October 2008
  5. 1 2 "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, Part 1 (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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