Chrome [Hardcover]

George Nader (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 369 pages
• Publisher: Putnam; 1st edition (1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399121250
• ISBN-13: 978-0399121258
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,900,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy It! Buy It! Buy It! If you can get your hands on it!, April 20, 1999

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[e-mail] (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chrome (Paperback)

This is an UNBELIEVABLE work of science fiction. Written years ago. I read this book 15 years ago, and I've been with "My" Vortex ever since. It's REAL Sci-Fi, but with gay heros.

I had to buy it "this time", because I didn't return it to the guy I borrowed it from last time and someone took it. Now that's karma.

Light on heavy sex, but strong on "I can't help but love'in that man of mine".

And because it was written a while back in 1978(read no concept of a PC), some of the "technology" is a little off.

BUT STILL! You won't be able to put it down.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Queer science fiction from the dawn age, July 9, 2000

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Thomas Leavitt (Santa Cruz, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chrome (Paperback)

I picked up a paperback copy of this a while ago, fascinated by the obviously homoerotic cover and the plot line... and, as a young queer person, amazed at the existence of a queer SF novel from 1978... I have all sorts of questions about it, ranging from the cover blurb (is Thomas Tryon a real person), to the apparently steriod enhanced cover art... to wondering about what kind of codes, if any, the author had to conform to... I wish I had a literary analysis of it... it was so wonderfully strange to read a book in which man/man attraction was normative, but still addressed the whole issue of love being forbidden by artificial barriers and societal pressure. Was Jove books a gay imprint of G.P. Putnam? Etc. Etc. It was a powerful book, which compelled me to keep on reading and reading... love conquers all.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars super man love, April 17, 2000

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S. cottle-spatari (NYC, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chrome (Paperback)

george nader has done a wonerfull job, of mirroring a fantastical future world wherin the love that dare not speak its name takes on a new face. chrome and vortex are mad max iron lovers battling the universe to save their sacred love. with highly spiritual undertones and a precious vulnerability that each of the characters possess, this novel is both a moving love story and a voyage into a sterile and artless future where control and domination is ever-present but the will to live and enjoy pleasure prevails.