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Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (Bending the Landscape)
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Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (Bending the Landscape)
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by Mark Shepherd, Ellen Kushner, Lisa S. Sliverthorne, and Simon Sheppard
Sales Rank : 903893
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Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing; 1st White Wolf Omnibus Ed edition December 1, 1996
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1565048369
ISBN-13: 978-1565048362
Product Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
Bending the Landscape will be a series of anthologies focused on homosexual issues in genre fiction, but this one isn't so neatly pigeonholed as all that. Gayness, or someone's discovery of his or her gayness, is indeed a common motif to all the stories, but in some it is central; in others, it's just a quality a character has--they happen to be having or have had a relationship with someone of the same sex. It's generous in size, 22 stories, and generous in its embrace, ranging in tone from sitcom-like light entertainment ("In Mysterious Ways," by Tanya Huff, and "Magicked Tricks" by K. L Berac), to realism ("Gestures Too Late on a Gravel Road" by Mark W. Tiedemann, and "Full Moon and Empty Arms" by M. W. Keiper), to realistic horror ("The House of the Man in the Moon" by Richard Bowes). Mythic fantasy, fairy tales, and ghost stories are all here too, so this is more like reading a survey than a tightly thematic anthology. The variety is appropriate. Neither fantasy nor sex comes in just one flavor. If you're at all interested in anything besides vanilla, sample this.
From Library Journal
In this collection of commissioned stories, gay and straight writers?including Mark W. Tiedemann, Kim Antieu, and Ellen Kushner?incorporate gay themes into fantasy stories. Many have explicit homosexual sex scenes. This first of a proposed trilogy (the others will cover science fiction and horror) brings a new perspective to the genre. For lesbian, gay, and bisexual literature collections as well as larger sf collections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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