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Mirage
Mirage "combines [science fiction],...an archeological mystery and male eroticism in one neat package. In the planet Ki, Brass has (re)fashioned a fantasy as old as Gilgamesh and as recent as our dreams."--the Miami Weekly News [gay men]
226 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1991
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Perry Brass
38 books43 followersPerry 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.
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May 27, 2009
I managed to get 100 pages in before I had to stop for my sanity. Wow.
These people come from a different sort of world, so they don't define things quite the same as us. Right from the start is a sex scene, but since the guys don't use the same manner of speaking, the scene ends up sounding like bad porn. I choose to start reading it while on lunch break at work and several people asked why I was laughing.
The amusement wore off.
Something happened and the guys were forced to flee, and ended up in our world, in different bodies.
Oh, and they have a 'Third Eye' = a third ball, which is magical or something--I don't think I got far enough to find out.
I really hope the author was writing this tongue-in-cheek. Half the time I was shaking my head in disbelief.
These people come from a different sort of world, so they don't define things quite the same as us. Right from the start is a sex scene, but since the guys don't use the same manner of speaking, the scene ends up sounding like bad porn. I choose to start reading it while on lunch break at work and several people asked why I was laughing.
The amusement wore off.
Something happened and the guys were forced to flee, and ended up in our world, in different bodies.
Oh, and they have a 'Third Eye' = a third ball, which is magical or something--I don't think I got far enough to find out.
I really hope the author was writing this tongue-in-cheek. Half the time I was shaking my head in disbelief.
October 1, 2014
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.
Perry Brass CHEATS, in that his characters 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.
I say `cheat' in the say way the movie `He-man and the Masters of the Universe' or `Beastmaster 2" cheated, taking the story out of their mystical, magical world into ours. The movies did it to save money, as it was cheaper not to have to make sets back then. Perry Brass does it 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.
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Seedy? Hell no. Erotic? Hell yes! Now, I did read ALBERT, or THE BOOK OF MAN, first. I devoured it, had to have MORE, and wasn't disappointed!
It continues in CIRCLES, with Endiku and . . .
It culminates in ALBERT, with their son.
Perry Brass CHEATS, in that his characters 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.
I say `cheat' in the say way the movie `He-man and the Masters of the Universe' or `Beastmaster 2" cheated, taking the story out of their mystical, magical world into ours. The movies did it to save money, as it was cheaper not to have to make sets back then. Perry Brass does it 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.
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Seedy? Hell no. Erotic? Hell yes! Now, I did read ALBERT, or THE BOOK OF MAN, first. I devoured it, had to have MORE, and wasn't disappointed!
March 18, 2011
Perry Brass is my favourite gay author. Very imaginative and creative works of gay fiction. His books contain thought provoking themes, suspense and sexy masculine interactions, mmmm.
Mirage and the other books in the series of Ki took me to an amazing place and I am forever grateful.
Mirage and the other books in the series of Ki took me to an amazing place and I am forever grateful.
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