"Contemporary Gay Romances is the third collection of short fiction by legendary novelist and memoirist, Felice Picano. It is also his most diverse in terms of the times, places, themes, characters, and situations he writes about. Filled with the unexpected, the true, and the amazing, Contemporary Gay Romances moves with ease from gas-lit upper class London, to a future, climate-altered Bay Area; from semi-rural Florida to southern California beaches, to an extrasolar planet where people have surprising existences. His characters range from ordinary American suburban housewives to extraordinary children, from grieving young geologists and memory-haunted middle aged men, to British Midlands soccer stars and 22nd Century war heroes."--P. [4] of cover.