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.
Published in 1997.[3]
Published in 1998.[3]
Published in 2001.[3]
