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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. L. Timmel Duchamp's "Dance at the Edge" is a heartbreaking story of visibility and strength, and Richard A. Bamberg looks at what it might be like to be the last gay person on Earth in "Love's Last Farewell."

Big name authors like Charles Sheffield, Nancy Kress, Stephen Baxter, and Elizabeth Vonarburg contribute stories as well. The science fiction volume, like all the Bending the Landscape anthologies, addresses universal themes of otherness, love, and loss. Great reading for the 21st century. —Adam Fisher

Note: The jacket calls this "Volume I" in a series, but this is actually the second, following Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (White Wolf 1997).

Contents
Introduction · Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
Sex, Guns, and Baptists · Keith Hartman
Half in Love with Easeful Rock and Roll · Rebecca Ore
Powertool · Mark McLaughlin
Time Gypsy · Ellen Klages
Lonely Land · Denise Lopes Heald
The Rendez-Vous · Nancy Johnston
Silent Passion · Kathleen O'Malley
Sun-Drenched [Slade; Bado] · Stephen Baxter
The Flying Triangle [Diamondback Jack's; Near Space] · Allen Steele
Brooks Too Broad for Leaping · Charles Sheffield
Dance at the Edge · L. Timmel Duchamp
Love's Last Farewell · Richard A. Bamberg
On Vacation · Ralph A. Sperry
The City in the Morning · Carrie Richerson
State of Nature · Nancy Kress
The Beautiful People · Wendy Rathbone
A Real Girl · Shariann Lewitt
Who Plays with Sin · Don Bassingthwaite
Surfaces · Mark W. Tiedemann
Stay Thy Flight (aka "Suspends ton vol") · Elisabeth Vonarburg
Free the Asveroth · Jim Grimsley
About the Editors · Misc. Material
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These stories, written by writers both gay and straight, incite fear and spur thought, transporting the reader into realms of shock and dread.

Note: The jacket calls this "Volume II" in a series, but this is actually the third if you include the first volume from White Wolf (1997), Bending the Landscape: Fantasy.

Introduction · Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel
Coyote Love · Kraig Blackwelder
Explanations Are Clear · L. Timmel Duchamp
What Are You Afraid Of? · Simon Sheppard
The Lost Homeland · Cynthia Ward
The Man Who Picks the Chamomile · Mark McLaughlin
Love on a Stick · Carrie Richerson
Triangle · Ellen Klages
Memorabilia · Holly Wade Matter
Blood Requiem · Gary Bowen
In the Days Still Left · Brian A. Hopkins and James Van Pelt
Broken Canes · Alexi Smart
Keep the Faith · A.J. Potter
The WereSlut of Avenue A · Leslie What
Kindred · Alexis Glynn Latner
'Til Death · Barbara Hambly
If I Could See Lazarus Rising · Kathleen O'Malley
The Waltz of the Epileptic Penguins · Keith Hartman
Passing · Mark W. Tiedemann
About the Editors · Misc. Material
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Contents
The Queer Avenger • (1996) • short story by Jean Stewart
Roses for the Prince • (1996) • short story by Mark Shepherd
Swan's Braid • (1996) • novelette by Tanya Huff
Houston • (1996) • short story by Jewelle Gomez
Birthmarked • (1996) • novelette by A.J. Potter
The Tale of Small Sarg • (1979) • novelette by Samuel R. Delany
Healer • (1996) • short story by Carrie Richerson
Ounces (excerpt) • (1996) • shortfiction by Dorothy Allison
Breakheart • (1996) • novelette by Mel Keegan
Heart of Stone • (1996) • short story by Lawrence Schimel
Rhezellah's Song • (1996) • short story by Nina Boal
A Canopy of Green • (1996) • short story by Jim Provenzano
To Steal Your Heart Away • (1996) • short story by Lauren Wright Douglas
Why the Moon Goes Away and the Sun Only Sleeps • (1996) • short story by Stan Leventhal
About the Authors (Swords of the Rainbow) • (1996) • essay by uncredited]]> 121029 3.23 13 1 109823 3.84 147 30 2916984 3.11 9 1 81261 3.82 198 19 103053 3.55 1348 25 1967 3.73 15095 1090 2916965 3.36 25 3 49111 3.87 4908 577 2916962 3.56 61 6 5599 4.00 10983 967 113985 3.80 65 6 157655 3.79 2693 109 2905484 3.78 942 4 620500 3.38 13 2 242055 3.23 56 3 745615 3.17 12 1 1996 6434072 1931305145 9781931305143 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6434072-something-rich-and-strange 0.0 0 2916962 3.56 61 6 2001 6821624 0071486583707 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6821624-the-magazine-of-fantasy-science-fiction-december-1997 0.0 0 2844920 5.00 1 0 13992 3.68 313 48 145766 3.93 70 8 11270 3.41 555 43 284559 3.37 400 92 2916962 3.56 61 6 247221 4.83 29 1 22549 3.89 530 96 892424 0.0 0 0 3061373 0.0 0 0 1997