Carnal Sacraments Author:Perry Brass Perry Brass has been a pioneer and now a mainstay in the gay futuristic genre, with novels like The Harvest, Warlock, and Angel Lust. His new book, Carnal Sacraments: A Historical Novel of the Future, reveals itself in its subtitle. — It is about the future, in fact the last quarter of the twenty-first century, but we recognize the connections to... more » the world around us. Global economic power, profitable war, privileges for the rich, government surveillance of everybody--all familiar, but several leaps ahead of today's realities. Jeffrey Cooper is an American business executive stationed in Berlin, apparently 30-something but actually 70-something. He's near a breakdown, dealing with his high-pressure career, the lives of his gay friends, and his own fears and love interests. All of it is unusual and unpredictable, and gives Brass a clever way of commenting on today's world.« less