What do a cunning old man, a code-slopper gone rogue, a pair of lowlife tech-runners, a sexually frustrated AI, and a hermaphrodite underworld boss have in common? They’re all out to get Benito Funcitti, owner of the first lunar resort: Fun City. Oh, who’s that old man? He’s Benito Funcitti too, thanks to a TeleCompositor “accident”  that left behind a double who shouldn’t exist.

With two Benitos squaring off, the adventure is sure to include daring, fun, and maybe a little something on the side.

The Man in the Moon Must Die, Jeff Bredenberg’s classic of 1980s cyberpunk, has been refurbished for modern audiences, presenting an image of the near future that’s both divergent and immediate.

On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu businessmen–American, British, German, and Australian. In between them stood hundreds of heavily armed US sailors and marines. Just after 2.00 p.m., the first shot was fired, and a military coup began.

This is the true, tragic and at times amazing story of the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii and her government. It’s also the story of a five-year police state regime in Hawaii following the overthrow, and an attempted counter-coup by Hawaiians in 1895. And of how Hawaii became a US possession.

In Taking Hawaii, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins (Standing Bear is a Person, Legions of Rome, Tycoon’s War) reveals previously little-known facts uncovered during years of research on several continents, in the most dramatic and comprehensive chronicle of the end of Hawaii’s monarchy ever published. Using scores of first-hand accounts, this often minute-by-minute narrative also shows for the first time how the queen’s overthrow teetered on a knife-edge, only to come about purely through bluff.

Taking Hawaii reads like an exciting novel. Yet this tale of a grab for power, of misjudgment and injustice, truly took place. Judge for yourself whether you think the queen of Hawaii was wronged, or was wrong.

Visit the Stephen Dando-Collins website for a complete list of dramatic histories of Roman Legions and other distinguished nonfiction works.  And for an inspiring fictional tale of a Roman investigator on whose judgment the success or doom of the cult known as Christianity depended, you must read The Inquest.

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Fans of Canadian police chief Reid Bennett have waited a long, long time for all ten thrillers in Ted Wood’s series to be back under one roof. Oddly, we had #s 1 through 7 plus 9 and 10, but the eighth, Snowjob, had met with production delays.  But that’s all behind us: Snowjob is back in print and the series is now complete.  And if you’re worried about Bennett’s German Shepard sidekick Sam, don’t be – he’s back too.

The faithful companion is still by his side in a case that takes them across the border to Chambers, Vermont, where an old buddy needs Reid’s help.

Doug Ford, a black policeman in the all-white town, has been charged with murdering the attractive bookkeeper of a local ski resort. Only Reid believes Doug’s story that he and the woman were working together to investigate an entrenched money laundering conspiracy. But, as new bodies pile up and the Mafia rears its ugly head, things start to fall in line with Doug’s story. Can Reid untangle the mystery before more blood gets shed? He’ll have to act fast–an unseen hand seems willing to stop at nothing to keep its secrets safe.

Intense action, sinister prejudices, and duty to old friends make for another attention-grabbing thriller from Canada’s favorite crime author, Ted Wood.

Nine other Reid Bennetts await you. Visit Ted Woods’ author page to see them all.

Elizabeth A. Lynn stands as a ground-breaking author of fantasy and science fiction. Her stories weave richly-drawn characters and complex scenes of daily life into the intricate tapestry of speculative fiction. But, beyond her technical skill, Lynn has changed the landscape of fantasy writing as one of the first authors to incorporate themes of gender and gay relationships into her work. Importantly, these themes are not part of the fantastic storyline but simply part of the unremarkable, normal relationships around which the fantasy occurs.

The Woman Who Loved the Moon, a deeply felt collection of Lynn’s early short stories, serves as a wonderful introduction to her influential work. Soaring emotions, eloquent prose, and fully-realized worlds are truly a joy to become lost within. That explains why the namesake short story “The Woman Who Loved the Moon” won Lynn one of her two World Fantasy Awards.

With The Woman Who Loved the Moon, readers will delight in an author whose work George R.R. Martin has described as “the sort of fantasy we don’t see enough of: lyrical and literate, and a treat from the first page to the last.”

For other great books by Lynn, including her other World Fantasy Award winner, Watchtower, visit her author page.

Taking Hawaii: How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff
by Stephen Dando-Collins

On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machineguns and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu businessmen–American, British, German, and Australian. In between them stood hundreds of heavily armed US sailors and marines. Just after 2.00 p.m., the first shot was fired, and a military coup began.

This is the true, tragic and at times amazing story of the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii and her government. It’s also the story of a five-year police state regime in Hawaii following the overthrow, and an attempted counter-coup by Hawaiians in 1895. And of how Hawaii became a US possession.

In Taking Hawaii, award-winning historian and novelist Stephen Dando-Collins (Legions of Rome series The Inquest) reveals previously little-known facts uncovered during years of research on several continents, in the most dramatic and comprehensive chronicle of the end of Hawaii’s monarchy ever published. Using scores of first-hand accounts, this often minute-by-minute narrative also shows for the first time how the queen’s overthrow teetered on a knife-edge, only to come about purely through bluff.

Taking Hawaii, an E-Reads Original, reads like an exciting novel. Yet this tale of a grab for power, of misjudgment and injustice, truly took place. Judge for yourself whether you think the queen of Hawaii was wronged, or was wrong.

Science fiction and humor seldom interface successfully – unless your name is John DeChancie.  But for DeChancie it’s a piece of cake.  His wickedly funny Castle series has been cracking readers up for years. But it’s going to be hard to top The Kruton Interface. For one thing, it features a hero named Wanker.

Just when Captain David Wanker thinks his career has hit rock bottom, he’s assigned to the starship Repulse, the lowest-rated ship in the Space Forces. The navigator gets lost, the engineer speaks only Gaelic, the security personnel have narcolepsy, and the ship’s doctor needs medication.

No sooner does he takes command than his job as captain is lost to automation invented by a scientist who thinks he’s Groucho Marx. Worse yet, when he meets up with the inhabitants of the planet Kruton, a world that is one huge law firm, he finds himself a defendant in the biggest lawsuit ever to hit the Galactic courts. Hilarity not only ensues–it practically goes supernova!

“Unerring Marxmanship. This book would have left Harpo speechless.” — “William Tenn” (classic science fiction author, pseudonym of Philip Klass)

“Madcap science fantasy–fun filled adventure!” — Booklist

“DeChancie always delivers!” — Mike Resnick (Hugo Award winner)

Catch up on your John DeChancie – once you catch your breath after reading The Kruton Interface.

Ruth Dickson, author of the button-popping, clasp-unfastening sex guide Married Men Make the Best Lovers, isn’t through with you. It’s time for the advanced course in love-making, positions and tricks guaranteed to drive your lover up the wall but never out the door.

With her classic, breezy, entertaining style, she instructs the uninformed and enlightens the already educated with a bit of science and a lot of blunt truth about the hows, whys and special variations of sex for fun – in or out of wedlock. From “The Nitty Gritty” to “The Other Side of the Bed”, Now That You’ve Got me Here, What Are We Going to Do? is an advanced course in the art of love and the pleasures of sex.

Dave Duncan fans have been waiting and waiting for a decade for the fourth and final volume of his “Seventh Sword” quartet, and at last their hunger will be satisfied.  E-Reads is honored to bring The Death of Nnanji to the world for the first time anywhere.

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For fifteen years the truce has held. Swordsmen of the Tryst of Casr have kept the peace and extended the rule of law over half the World, but now sorcerers have started killing swordsmen again, and swordsmen traitors are aiding them.

Shonsu—who was Wallie Smith before he became a swordsman of the seventh rank and liege lord of the Tryst—must once more gird on the seventh sword of Chioxin, and this time he rides out to fight the war that he hoped would never come. As he leads his army forth, its two most junior members are Vixini, son of Shonsu, and Addis, son of Nnanji, who has an oath of vengeance to fulfill. Their failure or success will determine the fate of the World for the next thousand years.

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Those who read and enjoyed the original three volume of “The Seventh Sword” will remember a series of surprise endings, especially in the third volume, so those of you who are not familiar with them will understand why we’re a little cagey in relating the backstory – we don’t want to spoil it for you!  You will want to start with The Reluctant Swordsman, The Coming of Wisdom, and The Destiny of the Sword before taking up this breathtaking climactic work in the Seventh Sword quartet.

Click here for the complete collection of Dave Duncan’s E-Reads books

If anyone starts a school for mistresses, Ruth Dickson will be its dean.

After years of personal research, Dickson offers pointed advice on becoming a happy and successful Other Woman, covering everything from the selection, capture and care of a married lover to his ultimate release. She leaves no stone unturned, discussing every aspect of the affair, up to and including the problematic Wife. Wrapping things up with an informative Q&A, Married Men Make the Best Lovers is must reading for any woman who treasures both her single status and the enjoyment of a rich, fulfilling sex life.

E-Reads re-releases this classic, smart and sassy advice book from the 1960′s. Published in the heyday of the sexual revolution, it’s as entertaining and pertinent as it was on publication date. And Dickson, one of the movement’s most outspoken leaders, still displays the same wicked mind, razor-edged wit and freewheeling attitude that made her one of the most popular writers of the day.

Water wars in California are in the news as cities fight over this most precious of resources.  So we want to remind you that E-Reads carries the classic account of one man’s vision of transporting water a preposterous distance so that a town called Los Angeles could flourish.

William Mulholland’s vision of an aqueduct to carry water from distant mountains and across trackless desert to the dusty little town of Los Angeles rivaled the visions of Rome’s engineers or the architects of China’s Great Wall. Indeed, Mulholland’s aqueduct was and to my knowledge still is the longest in the Western Hemisphere. Rivers in the Desert, the story of his inspiration and the execution of this amazing construction, is as stirring an adventure as any you will ever read, thanks to scholar Margaret Davis.

Amazon reviewer Michael Chadwick reminds us that “Fans of the movie Chinatown, Roman Polanski’s classic detective melodrama, will love this true account of how desperately needed water was brought hundreds of miles to Los Angeles,where growth in the early 20th century was rapidly outracing the city’s meager water supply. Like the 1974 movie with John Huston and Jack Nicholson, the real story has villains and heroes worthy of the big screen.”

– Richard Curtis