William C. Dietz’s Drifter trilogy is now available for download, and it’s chock-full of vintage Dietzian nonstop action and – well, nonstop women.

Smuggler Pik Lando suffers from a Robin Hood complex, and a good thing it is, because onlyhe and his ship The Tinker’s Damn stand between a lot of good people and a ruthless syndicate that will stop at nothing to exploit a planet’s precious resources.

E-Reads is happy to offer, for the first time online, Drifter, Drifter’s Run and Drifter’s War.

And if you’ve missed out on any of Dietz’s adventures, check out our full selection.

- RC

Sam McCade, William C. Dietz’s asskicking military science fiction hero, is reporting for action in E-Reads’ release of the four classic titles chronicling one man’s war to prevent the imminent destruction of the Terran Empire. Read Dietz’s special introduction to the series in the first novel, Galactic Bounty, then consume the sequels as fast as you can: Imperial Bounty, Alien Bounty and McCade’s Bounty.

And here’s a bonus: we’ve also brought back Dietz’s tense space thriller, Bodyguard Ride shotgun with Max Maxon on a hairraising trip to get a teenage girl safely back to Earth. Hang on tight: it will not be an uneventful voyage.

Look in this space for news of a paperback edition of Bodyguard coming your way soon.

- RC

Space wars are the foundation stones of science fiction, but contemporary media have given them some stiff competition through movies, television, and, especially, video games. Why would anyone want to read about a gunner on a space cruiser when he can be the gunner of a space cruiser? The kick of gaming is intoxicating, and any science fiction writer who’s able to hold onto readers in the teeth of that kind of competition must have very special narrative powers. Enter William C. Dietz, whose novels blaze with colorful characters, evil aliens, and nonstop action.

E-Reads has published two of Dietz’s early novels, Freehold and Prison Planet, and we’re happy to tell you that more are on the way. Look for Bodyguard, Mars Prime, Matrix Man, Steelheart and Where the Ships Die in the coming months.

Meanwhile, we’d like to treat you to the first chapter of his just-published Berkley “Legion of the Damned” novel When All Seems Lost about which Publishers Weekly says, “This adrenaline-fueled Clancyesque adventure is Dietz in top form.”

- Richard Curtis