Product Description

Selected and Introduced by Michael Rowe The very best annual collection of gay erotica returns for another fantastic year with these fiery hot stories of lust, love and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1295795 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

Customer Reviews

Top-notch writing but not especially steamy stories
"Best Gay Erotica 2001" extends the boundaries of what is considered "literature" as well as what is considered "erotic." Opening stories by Bob Vickeray, Ian Philips, Felice Picano and others demonstrate that authors of gay erotica have lives and interests beyond porn. Perhaps the most striking story is Philips' "Foucalt's Pendulous," a surreal fantasy with inside philosophy references beyond the ken of most readers' knowledge. There are a few truly "hot" tales as well, including Dimitri Apessos' "Just Another Night," Doug Harrison's "You Need a Boy," and my personal favorite, Matt Bernstein Sycamore's "Warm-up" -- very wild group sex in the park. The authors of these stories bend the genre in many novel ways. Larry Townsend gives us an almost quintessential slave fantasy in "The Hittite Slave," Michael Stamp toys with the hard-boiled detective story in "Never Trust a Pretty Face," Karl von Uhl's "AIDS is Over" raises disturbing political and ethical issues, and Jamie Cortez's "Five a Day" personifies certain gay personality types as fruits and vegetables -- no sex in this story, but it's creative. The anothology perhaps suffers from too narrow a focus in some respects. Only two stories have people of color as protagonists, and neither one is very good. You get the sense that all the old settings are used and overused: NY, Frisco, the cliched "large Midwestern University." But beyond that, the collection offers an impressive range of imagination and sex acts. If you're looking for a collection of stories to take to bed and have fun with, I'm not sure this is your best bet. But if you want to see the power, range, boldness, and creativity of some of the best gay writers, this anthology is an excellent place to start.