Circles: A Novel - Softcover

Perry Brass

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962712337 ISBN 13: 9780962712333

Publisher: Belhue Press, 1993

Synopsis

Like a wet dream hitchhiking through a nightmare -Circles is the phenomenal sequel to Perry Brass' groundbreaking gay science fiction thriller Mirage. Consider this: You're closeted Nick Lawrence, happily married to a wealthy woman in Beverly Hills.
Suddenly your life has been taken over by an alien force--and the secret you've worked so hard to maintain is exploding in your face. Your only ally is a strange old man from a distant planet, who threatens to kill you. What's next?
You're the young, blue-eyed Republican vice president of the United States secretly trying to win over the hidden wealth and power of gay America, while promoting your own agenda of "family values." Whom will you enlist for help?
You're a gay Russian mathematician who's discovered an organic substance that can pass through time, space, and other beings. What do you do when you discover that this substance has taken over you?
Circles returns to tiny Ki, a primitive, violent planet where Same-Sex love is a part of the balance of life. There Enkidu, once the promised mate of the ambitious hunter Greeland, has become the most hunted man on the planet. His only way out is to escape to Earth, alone, and there in a riot-scarred Los Angeles, take on the identity and body of another man. There he will find a partner who will do anything for him, including kill--and there he will attempt to save the lives of those he loves, including the tortured, handsome man whose body and fate he now owns.
Circles is both graphic and mystical. It brings to life some of the most unforgettable characters ever put into a contemporary novel. Advancing the chronicles of the extraordinary planet Ki, Circles will also advance the cause of gay fiction out of its narrow focus and into the world-embracing landscape of our era. Circles will become a powerful key to the evolution of gender studies and the expanding gay consciousness of the 21st Century, whose effects are already being seen, culturally and politically, today.
Says author Perry Brass, "Circles is one of my favorite books, and one of the favorite books of all of my readers. In it, gay men are seen for the first time in the heroic, brave role they will later take in life, when the challenges of the AIDS crisis, the romantic will toward gay marriage, and world-wide appeal of lgbt equality have crystalized into focus. Circles was a groundbreaking book when it appeared in 1993, but its real story, that of two men in passionate love, is seen every day in our lives. Belhue Press is pleased to be able to bring Circles back to the book-buying public after it disappeared for several years."

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From the Publisher

Circles, the sequel to the gay science fiction thriller Mirage, returns to primitive planet Ki, where Same-Sex love is normal to life. Enkidu, the cast off mate of the ambitious hunter Greeland, is now hunted himself. Escaping to Earth, alone, in a riot-scarred Los Angeles, he takes on the identity and body of married, closeted Nick Lawrence, and as Nick finds a new partner who will do anything for him-including kill. On Earth, Enkidu must save the lives of all those he loves, especially the tortured Nick, whose handsome face and turbulent fate he now inhabits. We thought the plot elements to Circles were even more exciting than those in Mirage. It is one of those examples of a sequel being even more exciting than the original, because the characters have had time to develop. Besides the inner turmoils so constant in Perry Brass's books, we also witness the increasing tension between Enkidu and Greeland, and the development of Enkidu's new love interest on Ki, Greedu, who is both enraptured with Enkidu and terrified of the consequences of their love. On Earth, Brass gives us another wonderful assortment of characters, most especially the confused, schizophrenic Nick Lawrence, whose body Enkidu takes over, and Reuvuer Svoizhe-both a brilliant Russian mathematician and a diehard Tom Cruise fan-who becomes even crazier about Nick. In the middle of all this is vampire-esque Woosh, the "monkey man," the sinister wizard who controls the clan of the Blue Monkeys. Woosh arranges Enkidu's second escape to Earth, then tries to destroy Enkidu, Nick, and, of course, Greeland. We will not give you the outcome of the story, but just say that if you want the plot action and sexuality in your fiction to be hot, heavy, and WAY over the top, then Circles is a must read for you. Again, as with reading Mirage, you don't have to start the story at the beginning, but once you read any of the Mirage books, you will want to read them all.

From the Author

I love Circles as much as, if not more, than my other books, mostly because like any good author I fell in love with some of the characters, in this case, Reuvuer and Nick. The two seem so completely real to me-and to many of the book's readers-that I kept hoping they'd walk into the room. Reuver finds himself completely taken over by his almost lightening-fast falling for Nick. Even the revelation that Nick's body, and much of his mind, is controlled by a being from the planet Ki hardly stops him. This part of the story takes part in Los Angeles, where, as Reuvuer puts it: "Once you've lived in L.A., anything's possible." The view of L.A. is tawdry, sinister, and glamorous at once-which any Los Angelino would probably agree with. I deal in the book with with hustlers, old style Hollywood queens, leather boys, the Beverly Hills set, Republican California politics-it is quite a cast. The best thing written about the book was said by palywright Tom W. Kelly in a review in San Francisco's San Franciso Bay Times. He said, "Circles is like a shot of adrenaline to the creative centers of the brain." I felt that way while I was writing it. And I hope you will while you're reading it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Belhue Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0962712337
• ISBN 13: 9780962712333
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 215