Lucky in Love

by Don Sakers

When his best friend Keith moved away, there was a big hole left in Frank's life. Then a bad car crash put him in the hospital. While there recovering, he got a visit from the star of his high school basketball team, Purnell Johnson. It wasn't long before his luck started to improve. Out of print for over 20 years, this companion to Sakers' Act Well Your Part is a story of young gay love in a world in which sexual orientation matters only as much as eye color or left-handedness.

Genres: Fiction, LGBT, Gay, Gay Fiction

214 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 1987

About the author

Don Sakers was launched the same month as Sputnik One, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should become a science fiction writer. A Navy brat by birth, he spent his childhood in such far-off lands as Japan, Scotland, Hawaii, and California. In California, rather like a latter-day Mowgli, he was raised by dogs.

As a writer and editor, he has explored the thoughts of sapient trees (The Leaves of October), brought ghosts to life (Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three, Baen 1989), and beaten the "Cold Equations" scenario ("The Cold Solution," Analog 7/91, voted best short story of the year.)

Sakers is a member of the CoastLine SF Writers Group. He has taught sf-writing through Howard Community College.

In 2009, Don took up the position of book reviewer for Analog Science Ficiton & Fact, where he writes the "Reference Library" column in every issue.

In his day job, Don works for the Public Library.

Don lives at Meerkat Meade in suburban Baltimore with his spouse, costumer Thomas Atkinson.

Reviews

[Dave · Rating 2 out of 5]

Boy discovers himself, meets new friend, tensions. Ethos odd to someone from UK and felt like missed opportunity of a book. But no unfeasible high drama to cope with and a serviceable if light storyline.