Bending the Landscape
book series
Bending the Landscape is the title of a series of LGBT-themed anthologies of short speculative fiction edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel. Three books were produced between 1997 and 2001, subtitled Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Each volume won LGBT or genre awards.
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. Mark R. Kelly's review in locus magazine bemoaned the anthologies lack of thematic breadth.
Awards
The series received awards including a World Fantasy Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and two Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Some individual stories contained within were also recipients of awards and nominations.
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy
Published in 1997.
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