Russell's ebook Library
Paper Hearts
Justina Robson
Robot Dreams [3]: What do Robots dream of?Four leading science fiction authors explore this question in four stand-alone novellas.ROBOT DREAMSAre humans to be trusted with the important things: the structure of society, governing their own lives, met...
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Parable [1]: In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Be...
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Parable [2]: Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God Is Change".But in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns...
Parasite
Mira Grant
Parasitology [1]: A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the In...
The Parasite
Neal Asher
The Parasite, a science fiction novella (40,000 words) by Neal Asher.After mining complex ices deep in the Solar System, Jack Smith is concerned about his profit margin, but is it him who doesn’t want to face quarantine or something squirming inside ...
Parker Pyne Investigates
Agatha Christie
The personal ad posed a simple question: Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne.The answer is a resounding no for a jealous wife who suspects her husband of infidelity... for a lonely widow driven to assume a new identity... for a distraught ...
Partners in Crime
Agatha Christie
Tommy and Tuppence [2]: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance.After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases ...
Pasquale's Angel
Paul J. McAuley
Florence in the year 1518 is riven by scientific and sociological change caused b the wonderful devices of the Great Engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Now he is old and lives as a recluse working behind the walls of his castle. The Raphaelites, artists an...
Passage
Lois McMaster Bujold
Sharing Knife [3]: Continuing the adventures of Fawn, a young farmer girl, and Dag, a seasoned Lakewalker soldier-sorcerer, THE SHARING KNIFE VOLUME THREE picks up where The Sharing Knife: Legacy left off, as Fawn and Dag leave all they have known to...
Passage
Connie Willis
One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unl...
Passenger to Frankfurt
Agatha Christie
It was an unusual predicament for Sir Stafford Nye - to awaken in a stupor after being drugged, only to find his passport stolen. There was also no trace of the fascinating woman he encountered in Frankfurt who begged him to help save her life. But S...
Past Master
R. A. Lafferty
In a world where wealth and comfort were free to everyone, why did so many desert paradise for he slums? Why were so many people choosing lives of bone crushing work, squalor and disease?
Past Tense
Lee Child
Jack Reacher [23]: The present can be tense...A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they’re trapped in an ominous game of life and death.But the past can be worse...Meanwhil...
The Past Through Tomorrow
Robert A. Heinlein
The Past Through Tomorrow contains all 21 stories, novellas, and novels of Heinlein's Future History series.The four books making up the series:The Man Who Sold the MoonThe Green Hills of EarthRevolt in 2100Methuselah's ChildrenIn addition to the con...
The Patchwork Girl
Larry Niven
Gil Hamilton [1]: Naomi Mitchison is the most beautiful woman on the moon - and the one who sent a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker of Asteroids.But investigator Gil Hamilton is sure she is not a murderer - and is determined...
The Path of Daggers
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [8]: The Seanchan invasion force is in possession of Ebou Dar. Nynaeve, Elayne, and Aviendha head for Caemlyn and Elayne's rightful throne, but on the way they discover an enemy much worse than the Seanchan.In Illian, Rand vows to throw...
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Blue Ant [1]: Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire s...
Pavane
Keith Roberts
An ever-expanding subgenre of science fiction is devoted to "alternate worlds" or "alternate histories": fiction in which a crucial event goes differently than in the world we know, and history is changed.Pavane is set in a backward 20th century mold...
Payment in Blood
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [2]: The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck.Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they ...
Peace Talks
Jim Butcher
The Dresden Files [16]: HARRY DRESDEN IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files. When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chi...
The Peace War
Vernor Vinge
Across Realtime [1]: The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure.The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon - the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind....
Peacekeepers
Ben Bova
When four ancient cities are destroyed in a nuclear exchange, a force known as the Peacekeepers comes into being, charged with preventing any nation from attacking another with nuclear weapons. However, their power is soon challenged by a renegade te...
Pebble in the Sky
Isaac Asimov
Galactic Empire [1]: One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he’s a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, d...
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