Born in Yorkshire, England, Griffith taught arm-wrestling and self-defense to women before discovering her love for writing. Nicola Griffith is a thriller, fantasy, and fiction author. Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms (By:) The Adventure of the Incognita Countess (By:)īoundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future (By:) Numa: An Epic Poem with Photo Collages (By:)īack, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales (By:) Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction (By:Sheila Finch) The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (By:)
The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor (By:) Timmel Duchamp)ĭe Secretis Mulierum (By:L.
Great reading for the 21st century.Through the Drowsy Dark (By:Rachel Swirsky) The science fiction volume, like all the Bending the Landscape anthologies, addresses universal themes of otherness, love, and loss. Bamberg looks at what it might be like to be the last gay person on Earth in "Love's Last Farewell."īig name authors like Charles Sheffield, Nancy Kress, Stephen Baxter, and Elizabeth Vonarburg contribute stories as well. Timmel Duchamp's "Dance at the Edge" is a heartbreaking story of visibility and strength, and Richard A. One of the best stories in this stellar bunch is Ellen Klages's "Time Gypsy," a "lesbian time-travel-romance-revenge story" about a scientist who discovers love in an unlikely way. Since the writers include men and women, gay and straight, the results are fascinating and kaleidoscopic. some milieu that had not happened" and then address the theme of Alien or Other, with the Other being a lesbian or gay man. The editors asked contributors to "imagine a different landscape. This second volume of Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel's Bending the Landscape anthology series focuses on science fiction stories (the first book covered fantasy, and the third will cover horror).
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. These stories explore physical, emotional and moral landscapes vastly different from the familiar - where nothing is as it seems. Keith Hartman's "Sex, Guns, and Baptists" presents a disturbing view of how the world could end up if the Christian fundamentalists continue gaining political ground 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 multiple award-winning Southern writer, Jim Grimsley, brings us to another world where aliens are all too human. Edited by world-renowned lesbian speculative fiction author Nicola Griffith and science fiction 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 and daring writers - gay and straight - creating worlds where time and place and sexuality are alternative to the empirical environment.
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