Reed Manning is a winner of the Henry Miller Award for erotic fiction. Author of more than seventy erotic short stories, his work has appeared in magazines such as Penthouse Forum, Club International, Mayfair, Club, Penthouse Hot Talk, Lui, and Penthouse Letters.
"Reed Manning has this way of getting inside the minds of his female characters. You just know they're having fun, and why, and how. It's never in doubt. His males are exuberant, deserving, ready to please and worthy of their rewards. After all the sex fiction I've read over the years, his stuff still makes me hot every time." --from the introduction to Treats.
If you're interested reading examples of the author's work, the place to begin is with the selection of stories available as eBooks at Fictionwise.com. Print appearances include the collection whose cover you see farther down the screen, Earthly Pleasures. Also, stories are currently in inventory at Penthouse Special Publications and will turn up soon in Penthouse Letters or Penthouse Forum magazines. Otherwise, look in back issues of those magazines or back issues of the titles mentioned at the top of this page, in particular, Club International.
Reed Manning is a pen name for Dave Smeds, whose main webpage can be reached by clicking on the link in this sentence. For erotic fiction under that name, check the above magazines as well as anthologies such as Wet: More Aqua Erotica, Fleshfantastic, TechnoSex, Selling Venus, Blood Kiss, and Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers.
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ISBN 1-885856-07-4
This book contains a dazzling collection of eleven erotic science fiction and fantasy stories by Dave Smeds/Reed Manning. These rich, funny, pleasure-centered works have been carefully restored, and sometimes expanded, from their magazine versions, existing only here in the form the author intended. Within its pages you will find tales of sex in outer space, sex on far-off planets, sex with aliens, ghosts, and vampires, sex in sentient limousines, sex in zero-gravity hotel rooms, sex in an Arabian Nights harem. You'll follow the adventures of a man who has more sex than he can handle, a woman who's so good that no man can endure her more than once, and you'll be there as the madam of a virtual reality sex parlor creates ways to make her computer-generated whores as good as the real thing. Featuring an introduction by Jack C. Haldeman II.
"[These are] tales of the quality of writing [reminiscent of] Unknown magazine in their playfulness, sense of wonder, and crispness of tone. The best stories in the collection are 'Strange Tricks', 'Love Potion', and 'The Limo'. I would have recommended all of them for the Nebula Award, but Club, Mayfair, and Club International fall beyond the scope of my usual reading. ['Strange Tricks'] should be in some standard sf collections, but that will probably never happen. ['The Limo'] has a great conceit and is also the hottest story in the collection. The [scene] involving the two sets of anal beads and the flashlights was particularly poignant, and well worth the price of the book alone." --Don Webb, The New York Review of Science FictionThe first edition of this book is out of print, but autographed copies are still available for $12.00 postpaid from the author via email.A great book of sex and sf! It is hard to find a well written fantasy book that is erotic: This one is hot! Although I am not a fan of short stories, each of these has a nice twist, while the sf holds well together and the sex is present enough to interrupt your reading frequently. At the same time, it is respectful of the characters involved. Don't think it is less sexy for that! As an occasional amateur of sm, I was happy to find a well written book that is neither sm or plain gay (or both as the enjoyable Beauty novels are). In brief, a thoroughly enjoyable book, that stimulates both intellect and lower parts! A full-fledged novel of the same author would definitely be on my priority list! --A reader from Switzerland, 5-star Amazon.com review.
A second collection, Treats, will be issued in a limited edition format in the near future. Treats will feature the very best Reed Manning stories of the past fifteen years, beyond those already collected in Earthly Pleasures. While E.P. was limited to stories which were both erotica and science fiction and fantasy, Treats will focus on general-interest, contemporary erotica. Send email if you wish to included on the publication announcement list.