Toby Johnson

Secret Matter (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of a 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Science Fiction and bestselling novel, Secret Matter returns in a revised edition for the 21st century. With an afterword by gay theologian, social commentator Mark Jordan. Kevin Anderson is 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, but they possess some odd characteristics and seem to be hiding something. What secrets do they carry, and where, exactly, are they from? This edition includes a Bonus of Toby Johnson's whimsical, but profound, story "Adam & Steve."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Toby Johnson
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463909768
• Artikelnr.: 53868653

Autorenporträt

Edwin Clark (Toby) Johnson, Ph.D., is a writer, editor and former psychotherapist now in semi-retirement. During the 1970s, he lived in Northern California and was on staff for many of Joseph Campbell's appearances during that time and corresponded with Campbell for over a decade. He is author of four spiritual autobiographies, two books on gay spirituality, and four novels. His 1990 novel Secret Matter received a Lambda Literary Award in the Science Fiction category and the 2000 book Gay Spirituality, a Lammy in Spirituality/Religion. His most recent books are Finding Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell and Finding God in the Sexual Underworld.

Toby Johnson and Kip Dollar, partners since 1984, ran Liberty Books, the gay and lesbian community bookstore in Austin, TX, 1988-1994, and managed two B&B operations together.

From 1996-2003, Johnson edited White Crane: A Journal of Gay Men's Spirituality. He worked as a literary editor and book designer with Lethe Press, 2005-2015. He's on the Steering Committee of Austin's LGBT Coalition on Aging.

In 2018, Toby and Kip were legally married on their 34th anniversary.

Johnson's website is tobyjohnson.com

The Photo posted is from 1980, when the first edition of The Myth of the Great Secret was published. This was on the back of the book. The photo was taken by Toby's dear friend Leslie Peterson.