Happy New Year!

- faster than life has now added a book-list to the online features. 
You'll find the books and stories in the lower left corner.

We will keep this photo to remind us and you of warm days to come. 
(yes, this pic does show one of the editors).

The next issue will come to you sometime at the end of february, beginning of March. 

We're busy working at it, but as this is a no-profit site, we unfortuanately have also other jobs, so the accurate date is as usual a bit difficult to access.

Visit amazon books from this site, as this will support FTL, which is a no profit site by the way. 

A happy new century
(this year is the year of the snake, did you know?) 

Sam and Simon.
 
 

Call for Submissions:

FTL is looking continously for stories, art and essays.

Writer's guidelines

We also work with you to increase the potential of your story, so you can also
submit "unfinished 
material".
 

We have now a short review
page with GLBT Sci-fi/F/H
books with links to Amazon. 

You can also link to some of the contents of FTL. More is in the printed version.

Crossing the border 

The river was tempting Arik, 
daring him to test himself against it, inviting him to merge with it. Not everybody percieves Arik, an apprentice shaper in a country full of conflicts between cyborgs, different humaniod races and animal-human hybrids as the one he truly is. 
Would Arik dare to bring a friend and risk to be out? 
read more

Suzy Mc Carnas has won the Tipptree award 1999 for her Holdfast series, in particular for the last book "Conquerers Child".
The previous books focus on the fates on a dystopian separatist society where men and women struggle for dominace.
The newest tells the story of a boy who living in the part of a country dominated by riding women has to pass as a girl to be safe from abuse. 

Interview: we talked to Suzy Mc Carnas about civil wars, the devellopment of utopian societies and how she found her partner. 
read more

Essay: Shape changing - a metaphor for a coming out or gender transformation
read more

Poetry: Mim wrote a nice poem about personal reality. 
read more

Message board:

Current topic: shape changing.
Read the essay or go directly

to the message board

We still believe that 
Paper is more romantic than a laptop,
can be read everywhere: in bed, in the kitchen, on the toilet, 
plus be shared with a lover much better then the text on a Website. 

So we'd like to make another try 
for paper. 
So support us: link to our site, order a book via our site or subscribe to FTL. 

picture by Mim

FTL features 3 sci-fi, fantasy or horror short stories in every issue - fun to read 

FTL probes deeper than the surface in its essays and articles about transgender, intersex and lesbigay issues in SF/F/H. 

FTL is inclusive: many excellent transgender and even feminist lesbian or hot gay novels have been written by straight writers. 

FTL features both news and books reviews to make it easier for you to find books interesting you, including also everything which involves shape changing and transformations. 

FTL has 36 pages and you get 4 issues per subscription. 

FTL can arrive at your doorstep, being delivered into your snail mail-box. Subscribe now and enjoy! 

Short Fiction:

Crossing the Border - Sam D. More

Take back the Night - Lawrence Schimel 

Stranger - Simon Desloch 

Interview: Suzy Mc Carnas Articles: 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-Jarr reflect the image of gay people in our culture? 

Further: Poetry, News, Book reviews.

Extra: FTM, GLBT & single parenting

If you have kids, plan to have kids especially as you are an FTM check out these FTL endorsed pages! 
Including hormone FAQ, being a single dad, advice for parents of toddlers, babies, adoption,
read more......
 

Book Reviews

Check out our growing site of  book recomendations.

see our new list, which cover over 60 books, old faithfuls and brand new releases 
mini-reviews and booklist

or check out individual 
reviews:

Northern Girl - E. A. Lynn
 

Stories: FTL - web 

Genderella - an erotic transgender fairy tale by Elleen

Crossing the border - science fiction by Sam D. More 

books about transgender and fantasy, sci-fi or horror at
 

Or visit our book list for gay, lesbian or trans sci-fi, fantasy and horror reviews and newest releases. 
(along with  selected stuff that is just too good to be missed)

Free Gift for  you

Get a FREE Gift certificate! If you have never used amazon.com or amazon.uk or amazon.de before, but are interested email us. We will arrange that they will send you a free gift certificate. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Links:

More Science-Fiction on the web: the Sci-fi Jumpgate - a directory to Sci-fi and other related sites 
 
 
 

Serving the alternative Family comunity: 

Here comes the link to AFM zine.
 

And this is a link to Gaylaxicon, once a year, usually in the summer they organize a convention in the US.