Dark Matter

by Thomas S. Roche

By turns gothic and erotic, punk and precious, violent and virulent, sexy and sarcastic, irreverent and obscene, unsentimentally noir and brutally, shamelessly romantic these twenty stories by one of the contemporary masters of the form are like no others you will ever read. Dark Matter is the clearest snapshot of Roche's bold early vision during a time when sex and genre fiction were being reinvented for the next millennium. After more than a decade out of print, this influential collection is available again

Genres: Erotic Horror, Erotica

238 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1997

About the author

Thomas S. Roche is a widely published short story author in the genres of erotica and horror, with occasional forays into science fiction, fantasy and crime-noir fiction. His novel The Panama Laugh, a science fiction zombie apocalypse about viral media, military contracting, and LOLZ, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker award from the Horror Writers Association, and his short story "Butterfly's Kiss" was a finalist for the John Preston Award from the National Leather Association. During his tenure as editor of Eros Guide's Eros-Zone.com, the zine was twice awarded the SF Bay Guardian's "Best of the Bay."

Roche has been a medical writer, marketing manager, music reviewer, and sex educator. As a nonfiction writer and blogger, he has written for Techyum.com, TinyNibbles.com, Night-Bazaar.com, Gothic.net, GettingIt.com, WriteSex.net, GoodVibes.com, 13thStreet.com and many other websites.

He is a community sex educator in San Francisco with San Francisco Sex Information, a nonprofit educational organization.