Albert, Or, the Book of Man

by Perry Brass

Albert is the story of two worlds - our own, in the midst of political and cultural turmoil - and Ki, a tiny pristine planet, besieged by tribal war and the threat of overpopulation, where gay men mate for life and possess the Egg of the Eye, a third testicle that allows them to listen to the thoughts of others, to reproduce, and to transcend space and time. Using his Egg, Albert, the endangered son of a Same-Sex male couple from Ki, will be reborn on Earth. The year is 2025, after the fundamentalist White Christian Party has taken over a divided America. Traveling through a nation split among fundamentalist strongholds and "gay reserves," Albert will find the Earth mate who will claim his heart - and allow him to return to Ki and reclaim leadership of the planet. Mesmerizing, erotic, and truthful, Albert is the story of two men - and two worlds - finally merging in these amazing chronicles of The Book Of Man. There, as the gay Everyman at the crossroads of life, death, and identity, Albert will tell his own story and define the ultimate tribe from which he comes.

Genres: Fiction, Gay Fiction, Gay, Science Fiction, LGBT

210 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1995

About the author

Perry Brass has published 23 books, including poetry, novels, short fiction, science fiction, and advice books (How to Survive Your Own Gay Life; The Manly Art of Seduction; The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love). A member of the New York Gay Liberation Front, he has been involved with lgbtq rights since 1969, shortly after the Stonewall Uprising, co-editing Come Out!, GLF’s groundbreaking newspaper. In 1972, with two friends, he co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic, the first clinic specifically for gay men on the East Coast, still thriving as the Callen-Lorde Community Health Service. His sexually frank novels are visionary: they include Albert or the Book of Man, 1995, which prefigured the rise of a White Christian Party that would control America, curbing reproductive, gay, and women’s rights; The Harvest, 1997, about the wholesale use of “harvested” human organs; The Substance of God, a Spiritual Thriller, 2004, about the rise of a powerful religious fundamentalist network of business interests; and Carnal Sacraments, 2007, about a mega-corporation (Amazon?) that would rule the world. His latest book is A Real Life, “Like Mark Twain with Drag Queens,/b>,” a memoir. He can be reached through his website, http://www.perrybrass.com or on Facebook.

Reviews

[scavola scavola · Rating 5 out of 5]

ALBERT is a great fantasy / speculative fiction / erotic story, the best of its kind, maybe even the only of its kind. Perry Brass's writing is flawless, the characters are hot, the story has meaning, and the sex . . . I devoured up this book, and then had to get MIRAGE and CIRCLES for more!
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The story begins in MIRAGE, with Greeland and Endiku of the planet Ki.

It continues in CIRCLES, with Endiku and . . .

It culminates in ALBERT, with their son.

They travel to a planet called `Earth', contemporary times in the first two books and the future in the third, facilitated by stimulating the `The Egg of the Eye', a mystical testicle.

Perry Brass does this tell two stories, which do intertwine. 1/2 fantasy, 1/2 historical fiction or, with ALBERT, 1/2 speculative fiction, with a dash of erotica . . . I recommend all three books, as well as any others by Perry Brass.