Albert, Or, the Book of Man
By Perry Brass
1995
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ALBERT, or THE BOOK OF MAN How could any book be so prescient? So ahead of its time? The year is 2025―our moment. Right now! And the White Christian Party has taken over America. It is looking for a scapegoat and finds it in queer men and lesbians. The whole country has been divided between GAY RESERVES, areas where queer people can live relatively free lives, marry, raise kids, and make decisions for themselves, and White Christian areas, where the White Christian Party rules. There Jesus or a perverted image of him, is King, and as the head of the WCP, Brother Bob Dobson, "HATE IN THE NAME OF JESUS IS BETTER THAN LOVE IN THE NAME OF ANYONE ELSE!" ALBERT was published in 1994, thirty years ago, when it seemed like the present political set up of Red and Blue states―of the rise of a demagogue like Donald Trump and a vindictive conservative Supreme Court; of draconian prohibitions against abortion, birth control, the rights of trans people, the rights of African Americans, immigrants, and other marginalized people―none of this was on the horizon yet. But Perry Brass saw it, and put it in this amazing book that is both interplanetary science fiction, present-day political realities, and an emtionally-charged gay love story. 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, are able to reproduce, and can transcend space and time. Albert, the endangered son of a Same-Sex male couple on Ki, will be reborn on Earth where the terrifying, White Christian Party has taken over America. Traveling through a nation split between 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 and truthful, ALBERT is the story of two men ―and two worlds―finally merging in these amazing chronicles of The Book Of Man.
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Author
Perry Brass
Author · 14 books
Perry Brass has published 20 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.
