Secret Matter

The winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Science Fiction and bestselling novel, Secret Matter returns to print in a revised edition for the 21st century. Kevin Anderson is moving along through his life, finishing up college, and getting ready to leave New York for an internship rebuilding San Francisco after an immense earthquake. Then the Visitors arrive; a race of human-like aliens touch down in several cities around the globe, including SF, and nothing will ever be the same. When Kevin's company is given a contract to build a facility for the Visitors, he forms a friendship with 'Bel, one of their number. But is 'Bel so alien after all? They seem so human, albeit much larger, but they possess some odd characteristics and seem to be hiding something. What secrets do they carry, and where, exactly, are they from? Before Kevin can get to the bottom of his questions, political disasters and miscommunications occur, and the Visitors are expelled. 'Bel and his emissaries are very clear that certain actions on the part of the U.S. will have grave consequences upon his people and their world, but no one listens except Kevin, who has fallen in love with 'Bel. Now the young man is on a mission to unravel the Visitors' secrets in order to prevent the death and destruction of Visitors and millions of Americans.

Toby Johnson is author of some nine books, all of which present in various and different ways the insights into the nature of religon and spirituality he learned from his teacher, Joseph Campbell.

A former psychotherapist, AIDS educator, community organizer, and gay bookstore owner--with his partner since 1984, Kip Dollar--Johnson is author of novels like Secret Matter and Two Spirits: A Novel About Life With the Navajo in collaboration with Walter L. Williams.

Johnson and Dollar were the first male couple registered as Doemstic Partners in Texas.

He has a website at tobyjohnson.com