num_pages: 384
description: Edited by world-renowned lesbian fantasy author Nicola Griffith and fantasy publisher Stephen Pagel, this groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's and science fiction's most notable writers -- gay and straight -- creating worlds where time and place and sexuality are alternative to the empirical environment. Keith Hartman's "Sex, Guns and Baptists" gives a disturbing view of how the world could become if the Christian fundamentalists continue gaining political ground; Ralph Sperry's delightful aliens in "On Vacation" are refreshingly similar to us: shy workaholics, exasperated lovers, good with machines; Ellen Klages takes a '90s dyke back forty years to 1950s San Francisco where she discovers her modern sensibilities are utterly alien to the lesbians of the time. These stories explore physical, emotional, and moral landscapes vastly different from the familiar -- where nothing is as it seems.This group of talented newcomers and award-winning genre veterans includes Jim Grimsley, Mark W. Tiedemann, Charles Sheffield, Carrie Richerson, Keith Hartman, Nancy Kress, Richard Bamburg, L. Timmel Duchamp, Charles Sheffield, Don Bassingthwaite, and many others.
language: English
title: Bending The Landscape: Science Fiction
titlecomplete: Bending The Landscape: Science Fiction
genres: Fiction, Queer Lit, Speculative Fiction, Gay, Science Fiction, Anthologies, Queer, Lesbian, Short Stories, LGBT
ratings_count: 225
series: Bending the Landscape
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Gaylactic Spectrum Award
category: Best Other Work, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
category: "Dance at the Edge", awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
publisher: Overlook