Ray Henriques has success, love, friendship ... but lately it's not enough. Yet it's not just Ray who is on a quest for deeper meaning. For Jesse, Ray's lover of ten years, it is a quest accelerated by his imminent death from AIDS. And for young married father of two Mike Tedesco, it is a search for the heart of masculinity. The sexual exploration which begins when Ray and Mike meet awakens a restlessness in both men, which resoundingly alters their future paths. As Ray's life begins to draw him increasingly into the future, a future without Jesse, he attempts to tether himself to the here and now with frequent visits to a past where life's answers seemed simpler and more meaningful. But when Jesse's fundamentalist Christian mother rolls into town to take charge of her son's final weeks, he is yanked from his reverie to face an opponent unlike any he has ever known. Marked by shifting points of view, humor, descriptive brilliance and unexpected revelation, Onyx is a multifaceted exploration of inner lives, motivation, love, and the sometimes hollow center beneath a polished surface. First published to acclaim in 2001, this new edition features a foreword by the author."Felice Picano, one of our very best writers, has outdone his previous riches with a novel that is smart and sexy and funny and historically compelling . You will be astonished by the intelligence, humor, and credibility of this masterfully executed tale, written by one of our best writers ... The best and most entertaining novel of 1999." - Bay Area Reporter"Impressive in its thoroughly imagined detail . the surprises at the end keep the reader's head spinning." - Publishers Weekly"[Picano] approaches the page with a newcomer's exuberance." - New York Times Book Review"An incredibly rich and densely textured world ... Picano is honest and excruciatingly descriptive ... a raw journey through death and dying, unsparing in his take on how survivors cope." - Roger Durbin, Library Journal"Picano has always drawn his main characters as gay heroes, unashamed and unafraid of who they are and what life has to offer, whether positive or negative. This, ultimately, is the measure of Picano's genius." - Greg Herren, Lambda Book Report

Onyx

With the end of the Galactic Matriarchy, Vir'ism has risen, centered on Hesperia, the City on a Star. But one leader, Mart Kell, is out of power, while another, the Great Father, Ay'r, is quietly retired. On a small resort planet with a rainbow of rings, Ay'r Eise'nstein-Kell, a 16-year-old boy, air skates across the sands, dreaming of escape to the famed City on a Star. When the rulers of the galaxy-wide republic and their glamorous entourages arrive on Usk to celebrate a great betrothal, Ay'r finds himself thrust into their midst but even deeper into dynastic schemes and power manipulations he cannot understand. Except when they are revealed to be perilous to his freedom and to his life. Abused and alone, he flees with few resources but knowledge into the unique dangers of The Great Salt Ocean of Usk. There, he will find all the adventure a boy could want. He'll also discover the plight of the oppressed worker-species, the pamps, who have long awaited their Messiah, and he will discover who he really is: could Ay'r be The One? Meanwhile, Kri'nni, heiress to the defeated Bella=Arth. empire, escapes her long bondage and plots her return. Holt, the youngest son of the Great Father, a playboy known as "The Cadet, " flees the media circus of his life for a mission into the heart of the galaxy in search of a new source of the Beryllium ore that makes galaxy-wide communication and travel possible. What else will he find to reinvigorate the new Ib'r society? The epic scale of City on a Star trilogy begins with Dryland's End, carries on with The Betrothal at Usk and concludes with A Bard on Hercular. A ReQueered Tales Original Publication. Praise for Dryland's End (Book I):"... like the best speculative fiction, this book provides the lucky reader with both an escape into the extraordinary and a mirror for humanity's deepest issues and concerns." - Jeff Mann, Edge"In full-fledged sci-fi form, Picano has created entirely new civilizations, species, even new language forms for his society. A phenomenally well-written book." - Virginia Gazette

The Betrothal at Usk - City on a Star, #2

Felice Picano's first collection of gay short stories span the period 1975-1982 as published by the pioneering Gay Presses of New York. Read again forty years later, they are a delicious time-capsule of gay life mostly before AIDS and set in iconic gay meccas such as New York and Fire Island. In "Spinning", we get inside the head of a DJ busy spinning for the customers, tricking in his mind and deftly conjuring up the disco sub-culture which has since faded away. In "The Interrupted Recital" we eavesdrop into the classical music world where ego clashes lead to disastrous outcomes. There are marvelous character portraits as in "Teddy", about a handsome Vietnam vet back home for a quick furlough. Or the evocation of Christmas in multiple New York households in "Xmas in the Apple". Longer works such as "Hunter", set in a writer's colony are pure horror fiction. The longest piece, the novella "And Baby Makes Three" spreads its wings recreating Fire Island of the 1970s and features Picano's trademark surprises and miscues which make the tale memorable long after the last page is turned. First published to acclaim in 1982, this new edition features a foreword by Eric Andrews-Katz (The Jesus Injection).

Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love and Other Stories

The Lure

Réalité dans les faits, profondeur dans les sentiments et "parler vrai" sont les maîtres-mots pour qualifier cet ouvrage. En voyant ce pavé, on pourrait s'attendre à une apologie du mode de vie des Gays, avec toute sa noirceur et ses turpitudes. Mais il n'en est rien. Détaillé en six livres, vous parcourez l'ouvrage avec légèreté. Les flash-back se succèdent. La vie de deux cousins (au second degré) se mêle et se démêle, au gré des grandes étapes de la vie des Gays dans notre société. Dans cette nouvelle-fleuve, avec en toile de fond, le SIDA, Act-Up et la lutte pour les soins, Felice Picano réussit parfaitement à faire vivre le lecteur dans la peau de Rog, le personnage central. Un réel plaidoyer pour le droit à vivre...

Nous etions l'histoire en marche

Five thousand years in the future, life itself is in jeopardy! A rebellion of intelligent Cybernetic servants has left the Females of the galaxy virtually sterile, crippling the controlling political body - the Matriarchy. The race is on to find a solution, but will it be enough to save the Matriarchy as other galactic authorities attempt to dominate them using sabotage and all-out war? Dryland's End is Felice Picano's science fiction adventure for the new millennium. The novel touches on many of today's most controversial subjects, such as interracial relationships, gender conflicts, gender identity, and same-sex pairings - and views them with a lens toward the future. The epic scale of Dryland's End, has been rewarded with two follow-ups. The "City on a Star" trilogy carries on with The Betrothal at Usk and A Bard on Hercular. First published in 1995, this new edition features a foreword by the author. "... like the best speculative fiction, this book provides the lucky reader with both an escape into the extraordinary and a mirror for humanity's deepest issues and concerns." - Jeff Mann, Edge"In full-fledged sci-fi form, Picano has created entirely new civilizations, species, even new language forms for his society. A phenomenally well-written book." - Virginia Gazette

Dryland's End - City on a Star, #1

Eisenstein Syzygy Kell, now grown to adulthood and known as Ice, is a galactic singing superstar, the Troubadour of all Troubadours. When he gives a concert on Hercular, he escapes a bombing and kidnapping attempt. A group of winged young people whisk him to safety through many of the five independent environments of this seeded world. When we last saw Holt Ib'r Sanqq', son of the Great Father, he had fled in a Fast equipped with technology gained from the Box Men. Twenty-three years later, he awakens in a faraway galaxy, where he is almost immediately captured and badly injured. The Trasp men have repaired him and placed him isolated and under guard in a palace. Whenever Holt looked at himself in a mirror, some medical cyber was sure to say, "Given your excellent upper torso and an otherwise clean slate, it was easily decided that a person of your high eminence should possess a perfect Trasp body." High ranking men adore him and court him, all in their bids to rule the planet.  Raqqa's mother perished alongside the Great Father Ay'r decades ago.  Now Raqqa teams up with the Cyber who calls herself Jenny to unravel the mystery of what happened then. The tale that began in Dryland's End with the fall of the Matriarchy in the Center Worlds concludes at the planets in the outer reaches. A Bard on Hercular chronicles new generations on new adventures.  A ReQueered Tales Original Publication. Praise for Dryland's End (Book I):"... like the best speculative fiction, this book provides the lucky reader with both an escape into the extraordinary and a mirror for humanity's deepest issues and concerns." - Jeff Mann, Edge"In full-fledged sci-fi form, Picano has created entirely new civilizations, species, even new language forms for his society. A phenomenally well-written book." - Virginia Gazette

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