spoltz
4/12/2020
This is the first of three volumes of short stories with gay and lesbian characters and or themes. The other two are for Science Fiction and for Horror. I read Bending the Landscape: Horror several years ago and really liked it. This one, however, was tremendous. Not all the stories are perfect. In fact, a couple are duds. But overall, this anthology hits the mark almost every time. Some stories are traditional European-like fantasies with magic and wizards. Others are urban fantasies, some are ghost stories, and the rest are non-traditional in some way or another. I can't put it any better than the quote on the back of the book: BTL:F "demonstrates that gender and orientation can be used to create spectacularly imaginative plots and rich works of fantasy". This book won a World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology and a Lambda Literary Award for Sci Fi/Fantasy/Horror, both for 1998.
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