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Daniel Keys Moran, sci-fi, "Emerald Eyes," "The Long Run," "The Last Dancer." Minor shota in the first book, but the second two are paeans to young male beauty. Lots of erotic tension, especially when you meet Lan, an Erisian terrorist, in the second book:
> Lan leaned back on his side of the seat. “You don’t kill people and you don’t have sex with boys.” He examined Trent curiously. “Honestly, you’re the craziest thing I ever saw.”
Christopher Marlowe, "Hero and Leander."
> Marlowe revealed to Englishmen a then forgotten aspect of Grecian art,—by harking back, not to classic Greek ideals, but to the Greeks’ fond and intimate scrutiny of the material world, and to exultance in the grateful form and color of lovely things when viewed precisely... The physical charm of Hero, and every constituent of her loveliness (no less than every colorful detail of Venus’s fair church of jasper-stone, which serves as appropriate framing for that loveliness), is expressed as vividly and carefully as is possible for the pen of a master craftsman: and even more deft, and more lovingly retouched, is the verbal portrait of “amorous Leander, beautiful and young”.
Richard Ford, fantasy, "Quest for the Faradawn." A badget is given the baby Nab to raise. He grows up real purty.
John Crowley, sci-fi, "Engine Summer." We follow a young boy from Little Belaire (a colony founded after the destruction of the Angels and all their works), Rush that Speaks, who sets off to find the girl he loves, Once a Day, and to become a saint. The most bizarre novel I have ever read, except for:
