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]

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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

Published in 1997.[3]

Awards

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Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction

Published in 1998.[3]

Awards

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Bending the Landscape: Horror

Published in 2001.[3]

Awards

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See also

References

  1. ^ "Bending the Landscape - Series Bibliography", Internet Speculative Fiction Database, http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?8879, retrieved 2008-10-16 
  2. ^ http://www.nicolagriffith.com/bending.html
  3. ^ a b c d Huber, George K., Anthologies of Gay Fiction, http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/ghuber1/index/anthologies.html, retrieved 2008-10-16 
  4. ^ a b c "The Locus Index to SF Awards", Locus, http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit0.html, retrieved 2008-10-16 
  5. ^ a b "Profiles of Recent Books from reviews in Locus Magazine", Locus, 19 October 1998, http://www.locusmag.com/1998/Books/Profiles1019.html, retrieved 2008-10-16 
  6. ^ Pearson, Wendy (March 1999), "Identifying the Alien: Science Fiction Meets Its Other", Science Fiction Studies, 26 Part 1 (77), http://www.depauw.edu/SFs/backissues/77/pearson-rev77.htm, retrieved 2008-10-16 
  7. ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "“Award Winners and Nominees”". http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/. Retrieved 04 Feb 2011. 

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