#find a free digital copy on Elliott's blog!!!

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So happy to support this independent and very important publication! Can't wait to support future additions and maybe contribute. If you want to learn about being a psych survivor, this is the place to start.

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o I didn t know Zoe whittle wrote another book. she's so nice she let me stay on her couch briefly in 90's then I read bottle rocket hearts n loves it. yeah I was just at woman n trans library in toronto they have trans video nights for a Noone n u can watch them there solo anytime n they have some trans books. I just bought Dr. Brice D. Smiths book lou sullivan daring to be a man among men. I got signed copy so Brice gave me great link which I havn t finished reading yet I had dentist appointment. lol Anyways here it is OK from the Digital Transgender archives.net u can get the free pdf of lou Sullivan s booklet called information for the Female-to-Male-crossdresser and transexual. Lou's founder of ftm international n first openly gay transfag to deal with health services o watch videos on you tube n Brice video reading from his book. yeah I'm sorta read in Manning up now it's at Yorkville library too. on YouTube there's a good film identity beyond the binary buck angel s in it he's so nice he answers all his fan mail. there's a good book called hidden in Plain sight by Zane. not the kinda book fir someone who wants to be cheered but I loved it yeah I love Elliott deline. I'm waiting also for that book to come in mail. refuse I read show trans and also I'm waiting for no poster boy. I just got leslie fienberg s drag king dreams it's not in library. I personally loved gender voices from.beyond the binary. even if u r not non binary I think a lot of essays by Riki Wilchins speak to all trans I would think . I love Kate Borstein any of her books or leslie fienberg or riki wilchins. I like jack halberstein book.i read forget title. his you tube videos too. lou sullivan wrote a book a biography of Jack bee garland but it's out of print hard to find I ve never read it but I really want to. but I noticed yesterday there's Alot more blogs articles ect.. online about babe bean. there's also prismcomics but their websites under construction but I think ther's an ftm comic book called transgressions which I havn t read yet. gladday bookshop has lotsa books listed on website by subject. There's markus Jones new book which doesn t come out til april 1st but u can pre order. he's trans but characters in that book r cis gay men I think. check his blog on tumblr starkiss creations . I love his zines !!!

ther's also this book for teenagers called ftm. a fiction novel. there s a great book mostly on subject of hate crime but I loved it called black on both sides . about black trans history. genderqueer and other identites photo book is one of my favourites. o I loved gender failure by Ivan coyote n Rae spoon and ivan s book tomboy survival guide. I saw a cool photography book I think it was called Christopher street well it's just photos of trans folks on Christopher street. in new York. relationship is a nice photo book too it's couple rhys n his girlfriend a trans couple. they work on transparent TV show now. there's 2 gender outlaw books bi the way it took me a while to figure that out. there's gender outlaw and gender outlaws .both r great.

Hello do you know any trans preferably FTM books? It would be great to read other experiences. It'll make me feel a little more normal. Thanks

There are a lot of wonderful trans books out there. I Am J by Cris Beam is my favorite YA book featuring a trans man protagonist and Holding Still For As Long As Possible by Zoe Whittall is my favorite “adult” book. I’ve also heard good things about Refuse by Elliot DeLine and Beautiful Music For Ugly Children by Kirsten Cronn-Mills. If you’d prefer non-fiction, check out Transgender Warriors, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Manning Up: Transsexual Men On Finding Brotherhood, Family and Themselves, or Transgender History.

You might also find more in my trans lit tag. Best of luck and happy reading.

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 Android Love, Human Skin by Richard Godwin Black Jackal Books Publication Date:  March 17th, 2018 Get a copy here!

BLURB:

Welcome to a world of four genders.

A dystopian science fiction novel that explores the nature of gender and sexual conflict and the addition to pleasure in a virtual world.

Welcome to the four genders in a future with no planned conflict, a utopia of pleasure engineered by the union.

Society has been revolutionised by gender control and the technologisation of man and woman. In a future where a biochemical weapon has removed the skins of the population, the rulers hunt for the beautiful ones, those men and women who still have skins. The union is the new government, a faceless body of politicians who were behind the order to use the weapon that backfired on them, leaving them skinless.

In the glass citadel, the new utopia, where the only surviving humans with skin are placed, they recreate the world of gender by offering humans four types of robot with which to have relationships. All the humans are placed in relationships with machines, apart from Gerald, who appears to be a spy for the union and is filming the humans, and Elliott, a robot programmer. The union watches it all, political voyeurs in a totalitarian state of enforced sexual ecstasies.

Humanity falls into four categories…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

 Richard Godwin is the critically acclaimed author of Apostle Rising, Mr. Glamour, One Lost Summer, Noir City, Meaningful Conversations, Confessions Of A Hit Man, Paranoia And The Destiny Programme, Wrong Crowd, Savage Highway, Ersatz World, The Pure And The Hated, Disembodied, Buffalo And Sour Mash, Locked In Cages, Crystal On Electric Acetate, The Glass House, Android Love, Human Skin, and Insincerity. His stories have been published in numerous paying magazines and over 34 anthologies, among them an anthology of his stories, Piquant: Tales Of The Mustard Man, and The Mammoth Book Of Best British Crime and The Mammoth Book Of Best British Mystery, alongside Lee Child. He was born in London and lectured in English and American literature at the University of London. He also teaches creative writing at University and workshops. You can find out more about him at his website http://www.richardgodwin.net , where you can read a full list of his works, and where you can also read his Chin Wags At The Slaughterhouse, his highly popular and unusual interviews with other authors.

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  Quick Reasons: interesting plot; intriguing story/characters; weirdly written snippets that read more like mini-stories than a novel; fascinating world-building

entertaining

disappointing

creeptastic

hot and steamy

Huge thanks to Richard Godwin, Black Jackal Books, and Rachel’s Random Resources for sending a free digital galley of this title my way in exchange for an honest review! This in no way altered my read of or opinions on this book.

This was a fascinating read, for sure. The world-building is intriguing, though I felt like it left a bit to be desired in terms of bridging the gap between characters and the world. While I anticipated there would be a certain amount of bedroom scenes, I felt as if the only place we ever really saw these characters was in bedroom snippets–and I mean snippets literally.

There was a weird amount of very short, very snapshot-like chapters. I didn’t feel we were given a proper amount of time with each character to be able to get to know THEM fully–instead, we got tiny glimpses into their lives, but only in the middle of things like eating and coupling. The outside world was lost to the smallest moments in bedrooms, in dining rooms. While I got the general idea, I felt like there were too many characters being focused on, and therefore not enough actual focusing happening.

This was an interesting and entertaining read, though I felt like it was more “snapshot stories” than “fully realized novel.” The world-building was good, though there was a bit of a disconnect between the characters and the outside world–and quite a large obsession with sexual favors. I’d recommend this read to lovers of erotic sci fi, futuristic worlds, and thought-provoking perspectives. Is your skin real, Penguins…or merely “human?”

Blog Tour, Giveaway, and Review: Android Love, Human Skin  Android Love, Human Skin by Richard Godwin Black Jackal Books Publication Date:  March 17th, 2018 Get a copy here!