Hormone Pirates of Xenobia and Dream Studs of Kama Loka

Rating:
Summary: The studs in these novellas are NOT lost in space!
Review: Having just finished this book, I can't resist giving my 2c on it. While it's no classic (exactly what is the canon of gay erotic sf anyway?), it does get the job done. The author exploits a variety of situations that extend the usual sexual fantasy into more speculative realms. The "hormone pirates" of the first story enable the main character to produce sperm like a cow does milk. The aliens wanting the supply use it to experience the universe in a unique way. As their representative, the Vronk, puts it, "We do not need it to zzurvive, but we find it to be an aezzthetic exzzpereienzze." Wild stuff. The main plot is a love story between two men who escape together. The second story, which I think is a bit better, is a virtual fantasy in which a college student is sent into a series of different fantasy dream situations in "Kama Loka" involving an Academy of Masturbatory Arts (its syllabus is quite a read!), a redneck rodeo with a unique bucking bronco, and an attempt to prolong unendurable pleasure (it involves powdered cinnamon and ants). By the end, a wide variety of scenarios have been knitted together to help the student to destroy his internal guilt over his desires. Posey possesses the one thing that effective writers of erotica must: a creative dirty mind. Let's hope this isn't his last book.

Rating:
Summary: Not a great read
Review: There's a dearth in gay oriented science fiction, and this book sadly wasn't worth reading. It makes sense that in this type of book, the erotic aspect would come before the science fiction theme, but the book didn't strike me as erotic either. Perhaps it's me, but when the body fluids you're describing are vomit and blood, I don't see how that's a turn on. In my opinion, John Preston's work might be preferable or for gay science fiction, perhaps consider Kyle Stone's The Initiation of PB 500 and it's sequel The Citadel.