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Bending the Landscape
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After a fight with your girlfriend, followed by way too
much booze at a stranger's house party, you wake up naked
in the bed of an unknown man, equally naked. Hard to believe
for a straight-as-a-stick guy like you. Your whole arm
is pinned beneath him, and you don't dare risk waking
and confronting him, the situation, or yourself. So what
can a supermacho, army-airborne-ranger-special-forces
real man like you do, other than chew off your trapped
arm and zip up your pants one-handed on your way to the
hospital? Such is the poser posed by the first story in
the third in an award-winning series of gay and lesbian
horror story anthologies.
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This
second volume of Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel's Bending
the Landscape anthology series focuses on science fiction
stories (the first book covered fantasy, and the third
will cover horror). 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... Big name
authors like Charles Sheffield, Nancy Kress, Stephen Baxter,
and Elizabeth Vonarburg contribute stories as well. The
science fiction volume, like all the Bending the Landscape
anthologies, addresses universal themes of otherness,
love, and loss. Great reading for the 21st century.
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They
are extraordinary characters living outside the bounds
of reality. But you will recognize them... It's about
being gay, being straight, falling in love, sorrowful
partings, death, and fantastic circumstances. Bending
the Landscape stretches the standard fantasy genre. In
the groundbreaking anthology, queer writers write fantasy
for the first time, and genre writers explore queer characters.
But don't expect the usual fantasy backdrops-these stories
will give you a frisson, a thrill, as they fizz off the
page.
Ingram
Awards (Individual Volumes)
- winner, World Fantasy Award
- winner, Lambda Literary Award (x2)
- winner, Spectrum Award
- finalist, ALA Stonewall Award
Awards (Individual Stories)
- winner, Spectrum Award
- finalist, Nebula Award
- finalist, Hugo Award
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