Russell's ebook Library
Creation Machine
Andrew Bannister
Spin Trilogy [1]: It is the aftermath of civil war in the vast pageant of planets and stars known as The Spin. Three years since he crushed the rebellion, Viklun Haas, industrialist and leader of the Hegemony, is eliminating all remnants of the oppos...
Creation Node
Stephen Baxter
In the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments. If not to rec...
Creatures of Light and Darkness
Roger Zelazny
Set on a faraway world, the seminal tale of a battle between Ancient Egyptian gods, Creatures of Light and Darkness is a grand display of the imagination, wit, and audacious genius that has placed Zelazny eternally alongside Heinlein, Asimov, Phillip...
Crescent City Rhapsody
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Nanotech Cycle [3]: In 2012, a mysterious alien signal from space strikes Earth, sending the Information Age into a horrifying tailspin.An intermittent Silence descends on the planet, disrupting all electronic devices and sparking a virus that nine m...
Cretan Teat
Brian W Aldiss
Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus.This false icon gets adopted by the people – and so becomes instrumental in the downfall of mankind.This is a story wh...
Critical Chain
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
"Critical Chain," a gripping fast-paced business novel, does for Project Management what Eli Goldratt's other novels have done for Production and Marketing. Dr. Goldratt's books have transformed the thinking and actions of management throughout the w...
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [1]: Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery.Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Eve...
Crooked House
Agatha Christie
In a sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinley Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years h...
Cross and Burn
Val McDermid
Tony Hill & Carol Jordan [8]: Someone is brutally killing women. Women who bear a striking resemblance to former DCI Carol Jordan. The connection is too strong to ignore and soon psychological profiler Tony Hill finds himself dangerously close to the...
Crosscut
Meg Gardiner
Evan Delaney [4]: For Evan, China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she didn't realise just how tough until, returning to the desert military base for her high school reunion, she discovers that a disturbing number of her classmates have died yo...
Crossroads of Twilight
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [10]: Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of...
A Crown of Swords
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [7]: In this seventh book of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, Elayne, Aviendha, and Mat come ever closer to the bowl ter'angreal that may reverse the world's endless heat wave and restore natural weather.Egwene begins to gather...
Crucible of Gold
Naomi Novik
Temeraire [7]: Former Aerial Corps captain Will Laurence and his faithful dragon, Temeraire, have been put out to pasture in Australia — and it seems their part in the war has ended just when they are needed most. The French have invaded Spain, forge...
Cruel and Unusual
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [4]: "Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution.But they can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene - a...
Crux
Ramez Naam
Nexus [2]: Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place.In the United States, the terrorists - or freedom fighters - of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human ...
Cryoburn
Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles Vorkosigan [12]: Miles Vorkosigan is back!Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove - he's been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair p...
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods - World War II and the present. Our 1940s' heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-h...
Cryptozoic!
Brian W Aldiss
The human consciousness had now widened so alarmingly, was so busy transforming everything on Earth into its own peculiar tones, that no art could exist that did not take proper cognisance of the fact. Something entirely new had to be forged.The time...
The Crystal City
Orson Scott Card
Alvin Maker [6]: Alvin has been trying to avert the terrible war that his wife, Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the life-lines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelo...
The Crystal Crypt
Philip K. Dick
The Crystal Crypt... Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl.
Crystal Rain
Tobias S. Buckell
Xenowealth [1]: Long ago, so the stories say, the old-fathers came to Nanagada through a worm's hole in the sky. Looking for a new world to call their own, they brought with them a rich mélange of cultures, religions, and dialects from a far-off plan...
The Crystal World
J. G. Ballard
Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses.Most...
Cuckoo's Egg
C. J. Cherryh
Age of Exploration [3]: They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warrior...
The Cult of Loving Kindness
Paul Park
Starbridge Chronicles [3]: The revolution has torn down the old Starbridge regime and its harsh authoritarian religion, but remnants of the old ways remain, especially in its more remote rural areas, and the forbidden Cult of Loving Kindness has begu...
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