Gay Young Adult Novels

Dance for the Ivory Madonna

it's 2042, and the U.S. has split into three nations; special interest groups have their own House in Congress; artificial intelligence has kicked humans out of cyberspace; and the African continent, a hotbed of technological advancement, is united under a contract government called Umoja. Making his way through this brave new world is a young African-American operative of a secret organization whose task is to avenge his father's murder and save humankind.

—Publisher's Weekly review, cited at

a lot of things: friendship, toleration, a celebration of the creative spirit, a paen to unconventionality. It's about what's wrong with today's world, what's right with today's world, and what hope there is for the future. It's about how our technology affects us, and about the decisions we can make regarding those effects.

—Don Sakers, see

Scattered worlds

1. Dance for the Ivory Madonna,
2. Weaving the Web of Days,
3. A Voice in Every Wind, consisting of two short stories,
4. A Rose From Old Terra, and
5. The Leaves of October, which started as a short story in August 1983's Analog, and was expanded as a novel in 1988.