Lust (Geoff Ryman).

Книга "Lust" (Похоть) рассказывает историю молодого ученого Майкла Бласко, который обнаруживает сверхъестественный дар - способность заниматься сексом с любым человеком в мире, просто подумав об этом. Испытывая свои новые возможности, Майкл начинает фантазировать и вызывать в своем воображении известных исторических личностей и знаменитостей, но постепенно осознает, что ему на самом деле нужно. Книга рассматривает темы похоти, власти, желания и того, как они влияют на нашу жизнь. Роман написан на английском языке.

Geoff Ryman's Lust is a romance novel with a twist: readers control the romantic development as the plot switches between the speculative and the absolutely explicit.

The protagonist, Flash (nicknamed Michael Blasco), a single man, gets a realization one morning – he has the ability to control sexual attraction by willing. He sees a boy he liked in college and fantasizes about him admiring him as a model. Flash focuses those thoughts and at once the boy, fully clothed, miraculously asks Flash where he wants the party to be held and dances up his way to the highway exit, wild eyes coy with enthusiasm and half-open mouth asking for one more invitation.

Flash's imagination runs free. He wishes for a host of favorites – from songwriter and perversely good lover Billie Holiday to Olympic swimmer and robust lover Tony Lewis and miniature Timmy Blasko, played as a shy toddler in a motel bed with girly touches, a bisexual photo album shaken in Scrabble rage. No perverse wish seems to go awry – but then it begins to seem that perhaps there was a cost: first Sancho Panza’s avatar, then wild Jessie James, soon deflating and cashed in again. What is the will's ambition? For Flash is yearning to create a wholly original relationship – a love of dancing – someone good at more than one thing, someone who'll take sexual questions seriously and show he's invested in the dancefloor as much as in Flash.

Ryman brilliantly conceals his story until its headlong emergence, drawing long, slow lines toward the final shock plain. Lust is fantastically written and gorgeously conceived... It's also a tremendous distraction!