Issue #0

The Substance of God: A Spiritual Thriller

a spiritual thriller

Plot

Canyou clone yourself—and remain yourself? Amind-blowing trip into immortality, filled with full-body thrills, andspectacular highs. All from a storyteller at the peak of his art. “Perry Brasshas added to the annals of gay lit.” —Book Marks.                   Immortality anyone?                  What happens when Dr. LeonardMiller, a leading gay bio-researcher—who is secretly addicted to “kinky” sex—isfound murdered in his laboratory, after working on a living human tissue morethan two thousand years old? And what happens when this constantly regeneratingsubstance brings Miller himself back to life?                  Leonard Miller must askhimself these questions, as well as who has infiltrated his laboratory to killhim, how long will he have to live—and exactlywhere does life end? Miller’s storytakes him from the sex scenes of  Manhattan tothe  baths of Istanbul. It deals withreligious fundamentalism and sexual ritual and release. And Miller, theunbelieving scientist, will be driven himself to ask: Is our often suppressedurge towards sex and our urge towards a union with God  . . . the same urge?                  Once again Perry Brass’s workfuses action, spirituality, politics, and eroticism to explore some of themajor questions of our time.