As students and parents turn their attention to the academic year, one school that might be at the bottom of your fallback list is the one portrayed in Kampus, Grand Master James Gunn’s chilling vision of a college of the future. In Kampus, college has just one purpose: endless battle. Political organizations urge ruthless combat with an invisible opponent and each student is challenged to be more extreme than the rest. One man finds his fame by kidnapping and killing a professor. Instantly he is immersed into the world of grease-guns and grenades, where the anarchy is suspiciously formulated. The professors have forgotten their pursuit of knowledge, midnight groping has turned into isolated sex with keyboards and the only goal is to compete in deadly political games. By becoming a shining example of academic excellence, Tom Gavin has tapped into the secrets inside the private chambers of the university. He finds it is either play the game or die beneath the latest revolutionary fire.

Kampus is one of eleven James Gunn titles published by E-Reads.

– Richard Curtis

There is scarcely an award that James Gunn hasn’t won, or a distinguished position in the fantasy and science fiction world he hasn’t held. A few minutes reviewing his accomplishments is time well spent. The most significant of his honors is Grand Master for a lifetime of achievement placing him at the pinnacle of accomplishment in science fiction. He earned it not just for his books, of which there are many of great distinction, but for the service he has rendered to the literary genre and the giants and pioneers like himself who created it. He is also an archivist and scholar who has preserved drafts, correspondence, and historical information that satisfy our curiosity about the authors and processes behind the books themselves.

E-Reads has a solid block of Gunn’s work, and today we’re happy to feature two favorites at the top of everyone’s Gunn chart, The Dreamers and the The Listeners.

- Richard Curtis