Albert: Or the Book of Man - Softcover

Brass, Perry

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9780962712357: Albert: Or the Book of Man

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962712353 ISBN 13: 9780962712357

Publisher: Belhue Pr, 1994

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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.

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From the Publisher:

As a work of science fiction, rather than simply gay fiction, some readers may find Albert even more imaginative and thrilling than its predecessors. As we have said before, you don't have to read the Ki books in order, and some readers have actually started out with Albert and read back. In Albert, Brass introduces a whole new order of creatures on Ki, including several strange, very sexy hybrids of ape and semi-human beings, as well as Anvil, the power-hungry Off-Sexer who will have sex with anyone, and use everyone accordingly. Albert-like most of Brass's books-is very political, but the politics of the story never take over; it never becomes simply a political tract. Now that we seem to be living in a state of what Brass calls "corporate feudalism," the feudal aspects of Kivian life seem even more appropriate to our own. This is also, physically, a beautifully produced book, and readers have told us that they have really enjoyed every aspect of it.

From the Author:

In Albert I wanted to deal with the world of the not-too-distant future, but also with our world. Now that we are seeing a real-and often violent-polarity in this country between the Religious Right and whatever is center or Left of it, the setting of Albert, America in the year 2025, seems even more real. Whether or not we will have a takeover of the White Christian Party or its equivilent in the next few decades, gay men and lesbians, as well as others who believe that their own sexuality should remain their business and not the business of a state religion, now find themselves increasingly under attack. One of the immediate calls in Albert is towards a solidarity, a tribalism that includes not only gay men and lesbians, but all people who value human closeness, genuine warm feelings, and compassion. This sense of tribalism may be the one thing that will save us in the future.

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