2 EDITORIAL - Simon Dessloch

3 PRINT OR WEB? Support FTL!

4 SHORT FITION: A matter of the heart - T. Olbert

sword and sorcery with a humorous and gay/les touch

9 INTERVIEW: Terry Pratchett and the discworld

genderbending and transformations by the contemporary top best-selling British fantasy author (we don't count Harry Potter as true sci-fi fantasy or do we)?

12 BIOGRAPHY: Terry Pratchett - Colin Smythe

About the orang-utan, the atomic power station and the forthcoming books

13 POEM: Lament of the Priamus - John Blue

a gay, an androgynous, a transgender creation myth

15 POEM: Time - Margret More

15 BOOK REVIEWS about:

15 Northern Girl from E.A. Lynn - lesbian/bisexual fantasy

16 Bodies that matter - the avant-garde of short fiction collection

19 Dead thing from R. Calder

20 'Congenital Agenesis Of Gender Ideation' from Raphael Carter

(yes that is the true name of that piece which has won the Tipptree award some years ago)

21 The Ruins Of Ambrai from Melanie Rawn

22 Cloud's rider from C. J. Cherryh

23 SHORT FICTION: The Jolly- Joker- Lady - H. C. Gast The magic to transition

25 SHORT FICTION: Boyle's night out - S. Dessloch Alien, gay, exotic, erotic science-fiction - just right for the summer

27 SHORT FICTION: A Sense of worth - K. Drake

Lesbian adventure in the land of the ancient stone circles 32

SHORT FICTION: Genderella - an erotic transgender fairy tale