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I met Kyler Fey through Twitter's #LGBTWIP event and when I realized that his omnibus hadn't much attention on GR, I wanted to fix that. I downloaded the sample through Kindle and got to reading.
The omnibus collects the first five novellas of the Commander Jace and the Unsuitable Boys series. Set in the distant future, humanity has moved from Earth to further populate other planets. The whole "populate" thing hits a snag though: somehow heterosexual men have been rendered sterile, while queer men are now super fertile. Sex slavery and black market semen become the norm until Commander Jace Dekka tears it all down, and the fertility crisis is solved. Jace now lives with a close knit group of partners, dubbed the Unsuitable Boys, on Maya Plaxa island. It's with this background world building that the novella collection begins, and it's quite the romp.
The Forward to the collection explains the series with a deft, sometimes overzealous hand, and I appreciated the warning that things were going to get graphic with very little preamble. Fey expertly captures the feel of an erotic sci-fi pulp novel from the '70s or '80s, with his characters inhabiting a "porntopia" free of sexual repression. While reading I was reminded a lot of Barbarella, John Varley's Gaea Trilogy, or what I imagine The Man From O.R.G.Y. is like, but with queer men. There's a triumphant moment with a group of men re-shooting Star Trek episodes with the goal of bringing the homoerotic content to the fore. Kirk seduces a man, and it had me grinning ear to ear because finally.
The sex is near constant and burn yourself hot, but the scenes also brought out my one quibble with the work. I wish Jace did not have a partner who was also his adopted son, though I know May-December romances are a popular trope. Fey tries to broaden the distance between them, but it didn't feel quite enough at times.
With the sample, I received the Forward and a teaser of "The Case of the Tattooed Twink," and I highly recommend it if you're not sure you like erotic sci-fi pulp novels. I give Commander Jace and the Unsuitable Boys Omnibus five stars because it accomplishes exactly what Fey wanted it to accomplish with fantastic panache. Live long and prosper indeed.
The omnibus collects the first five novellas of the Commander Jace and the Unsuitable Boys series. Set in the distant future, humanity has moved from Earth to further populate other planets. The whole "populate" thing hits a snag though: somehow heterosexual men have been rendered sterile, while queer men are now super fertile. Sex slavery and black market semen become the norm until Commander Jace Dekka tears it all down, and the fertility crisis is solved. Jace now lives with a close knit group of partners, dubbed the Unsuitable Boys, on Maya Plaxa island. It's with this background world building that the novella collection begins, and it's quite the romp.
The Forward to the collection explains the series with a deft, sometimes overzealous hand, and I appreciated the warning that things were going to get graphic with very little preamble. Fey expertly captures the feel of an erotic sci-fi pulp novel from the '70s or '80s, with his characters inhabiting a "porntopia" free of sexual repression. While reading I was reminded a lot of Barbarella, John Varley's Gaea Trilogy, or what I imagine The Man From O.R.G.Y. is like, but with queer men. There's a triumphant moment with a group of men re-shooting Star Trek episodes with the goal of bringing the homoerotic content to the fore. Kirk seduces a man, and it had me grinning ear to ear because finally.
The sex is near constant and burn yourself hot, but the scenes also brought out my one quibble with the work. I wish Jace did not have a partner who was also his adopted son, though I know May-December romances are a popular trope. Fey tries to broaden the distance between them, but it didn't feel quite enough at times.
With the sample, I received the Forward and a teaser of "The Case of the Tattooed Twink," and I highly recommend it if you're not sure you like erotic sci-fi pulp novels. I give Commander Jace and the Unsuitable Boys Omnibus five stars because it accomplishes exactly what Fey wanted it to accomplish with fantastic panache. Live long and prosper indeed.