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the new Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror zine for alternative gender and sexuality

transgender :(1) being percieved as comunicating in a style that encompasses the comunication pattern of both men and women. (2) apparently comunicating in the "wrong style". Travellers in foreign cultures, tourists, aliens (also alien immigrants...) are often transgendered.

Issue No 1 June/July 20001 - Shape Changing
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Short Fiction:
Crossing the Border - Sam D. More
Changelings were usually more than modest. Swimming especially in public places was usually not practiced. But the river spoke to Arik, tempting him both with a challenge and a promise that he found impossible to resist.
Take back the Night - Lawrence Schimel
One day a canine guest visiting an older lesbian's "allnight feminist bookstore" gave her slogan "take back the night" a new meaning. In more than one way.
Stranger - Simon Desloch
Diplomatic missions, ivolving military, interstellar flight and aliens can be tough - but hot as well.

Interview: featuring the Tiptree award winner from 1999, author and playwright Suzy Mc Carnas about finding publishers, feminist politics, and her "Holdfast" novels.

Articles:
Editorial: Faster than life - perspectives and intersections of science fiction and fantasy with queer life.
Transformations and Shape changers in fairy tales - a metaphor for transpeople or gays and lesbians?
Star wars: Jar-Jar, loved or hated - how does the controversity around Jar-Jar reflect the image of gay people in our culture?
as well as

Poetry by Mim,
News from the world of SciFi/Fantasy/Horror interesting to our readers,
Book reviews and recommendations, including an overview over the best relevant genre novels of the last century.

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