Bending the Landscape

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.{{citation |url=http://www.locusmag.com/1998/Books/Profiles1019.html |title=Profiles of Recent Books from reviews in Locus Magazine |date=19 October 1998 |accessdate=16 October 2008 |periodical=Locus }}{{citation |first=Wendy |last=Pearson |title=Identifying the Alien: Science Fiction Meets Its Other |periodical=Science Fiction Studies |url=http://www.depauw.edu/SFs/backissues/77/pearson-rev77.htm |issue=77 |volume=Part 1 |series=26 |date=March 1999 |accessdate=16 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004111316/http://www.depauw.edu/SFs/backissues/77/pearson-rev77.htm |archivedate=4 October 2008 |df=dmy-all }} Mark R. Kelly's review in locus magazine bemoaned the anthologies lack of thematic breadth.

The series received awards including a World Fantasy Award,{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention |year=2010 |title=Award Winners and Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |accessdate=4 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archivedate=1 December 2010 |df=dmy }} two Lambda Literary Awards, and two Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. Some individual stories contained within were also recipients of awards and nominations.

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Published in 1997.

• Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
• World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology

• Frost Painting – novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• Gary, in the Shadows – shortstory by Mark Shepherd
• Prince of the Dark Green Sea – shortstory by Mark McLaughlin
• Water Snakes – shortstory by Holly Wade Matter
• Gestures Too Late on a Gravel Road – shortstory by Mark W. Tiedemann
• The Fall of the Kings (The World of Riverside) – novelette by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
• Cloudmaker – shortstory by Charlee Jacob
• Magicked Tricks – novelette by K. L. Berac
• The Sound of Angels – shortstory by Lisa S. Silverthorne
• The King's Folly – shortstory by James A. Moore
• Beside the Well – shortstory by Leslie What
• The Home Town Boy – shortstory by B. J. Thrower
• Expression of Desire – shortstory by Dominick Cancilla
• There Are Things Which Are Hidden from the Eyes of the Everyday – shortstory by Simon Sheppard
• Full Moon and Empty Arms – shortstory by M. W. Keiper
• Mahu – novelette by Jeff Verona
• The Stars Are Tears – shortstory by Robin Wayne Bailey
• Desire – shortstory by Kim Antieau
• Young Lady Who Loved Caterpillars – shortstory by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• In Memory of – shortstory by Don Bassingthwaite
• In Mysterious Ways – novelette by Tanya Huff
• In the House of the Man in the Moon – shortstory by Richard Bowes

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Published in 1998.

• Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
• Gaylactic Spectrum Award
• Stonewall Book Award: Literature (finalist)

• Sex, Guns, and Baptists – shortstory by Keith Hartman
• Half in Love With Easeful Rock and Roll – shortfiction by Rebecca Ore
• Powertool – shortfiction by Mark McLaughlin
• Time Gypsy – novelette by Ellen Klages
• Lonely Land – shortfiction by Denise Lopes Heald
• The Rendez-Vous – shortfiction by Nancy Johnston
• Silent Passion – shortfiction by Kathleen O'Malley
• Sun-Drenched – shortfiction by Stephen Baxter
• The Flying Triangle – [Near Space] – shortfiction by Allen Steele
• Brooks Too Broad For Leaping – shortstory by Charles Sheffield
• A Real Girl – shortfiction by Shariann Lewitt
• Dance at the Edge – novelette by L. Timmel Duchamp
• Love's Last Farewell – shortfiction by Richard A. Bamberg
• On Vacation – shortfiction by Ralph A. Sperry
• The City in Morning – shortstory by Carrie Richerson
• State of Nature – shortstory by Nancy Kress
• The Beautiful People – shortfiction by Wendy Rathbone
• Who Plays With Sin – shortfiction by Don Bassingthwaite
• Surfaces – shortfiction by Mark W. Tiedemann
• Stay Thy Flight – shortfiction by Élisabeth Vonarburg
• Free in Asveroth – shortstory by Jim Grimsley

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Published in 2001.{{citation |title=Anthologies of Gay Fiction |first=George K. |last=Huber |url=http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/ghuber1/index/anthologies.html |accessdate=16 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016050938/http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/ghuber1/index/anthologies.html |archivedate=16 October 2008 |df=dmy-all }}

• Gaylactic Spectrum Award

• Coyote Love – shortstory by Kraig Blackwelder
• Explanations Are Clear – novelette by L. Timmel Duchamp
• What Are You Afraid Of? – shortstory by Simon Sheppard
• The Lost Homeland – novelette by Cynthia Ward
• The Man Who Picks the Chamomile – shortstory by Mark McLaughlin
• Love on a Stick – novelette by Carrie Richerson
• Triangle – shortstory by Ellen Klages
• Memorabilia – novelette by Holly Wade Matter
• Blood Requiem – shortstory by Gary Bowen
• In the Days Still Left – novelette by Brian A. Hopkins and James Van Pelt
• Broken Canes – shortstory by Alexi Smart
• Keep the Faith – shortstory by A. J. Potter
• The WereSlut of Avenue A – shortstory by Leslie What
• Kindred – novelette by Alexis Glynn Latner
• 'Til Death – shortstory by Barbara Hambly
• If I Could See Lazarus Rising – novelette by Kathleen O'Malley
• The Waltz of the Epileptic Penguins – shortstory by Keith Hartman
• Passing – novelette by Mark W. Tiedemann

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• Homosexuality in speculative fiction
• List of LGBT-themed speculative fiction

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004111316/http://www.depauw.edu/SFs/backissues/77/pearson-rev77.htm In depth review] in Science Fiction Studies
• [http://www.locusmag.com/1998/Shf/Bending.html Reviews of some individual science fiction stories]

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