Russell's ebook Library
Africa Zero
Neal Asher
Much of the human race has abandoned Earth and Africa, always a savage place, is the hunting ground of the Great African Vampire, come down from his eyrie on the ice — a place populated by vicous religious cults and primitive tribes, strewn with leth...
The Bosch: A Novella
Neal Asher
The Bosch is a short novella of 21,000 words, written after nightmares about a far future biotech world and subsequently leafing through a Hieronymus Bosch art book. Set in a far future after the Polity of my books has passed into history, The Bosch ...
Cowl
Neal Asher
In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the Umbrathane have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc acros...
The Engineer ReConditioned
Neal Asher
Asher is rapidly becoming one of the major figures in 21st-century SF, as shown by the 10 powerful and entertaining stories in this collection.In The Engineer, an interstellar research vessel picks up an escape pod that has been drifting for millions...
Fantastical
Neal Asher
Fantastical: a short story collection. I’m known for science fiction and, generally, that work is what ends up as a book or in some story collection. But as over the years I scrabbled around to find my opening I also wrote fantasy, contemporary and s...
Jack Four
Neal Asher
Created to die – determined to live . . . Jack Four – one of twenty human clones – has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien prador and they only want him for their experimentation program. But there is something different about Jack....
Jenny Trapdoor
Neal Asher
During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. The manipulations of this insane and incredibly dangerous intelligence were grotesque. It granted wishes that were deals with the devil, and transformed ...
Lockdown Tales
Neal Asher
Neal Asher was far from idle during the isolation of lockdown; he kept himself occupied in the best way possible: he wrote. And his imagination was clearly in overdrive. Five brand new novellas and novelettes and one novella reworked and expanded fro...
Lockdown Tales II
Neal Asher
A collection of nine novelettes and stories from best-selling SF author Neal Asher (150,000 words of fiction between them), all written during lockdown and including four that are original to this volume. Some of these thrilling and inventive narrati...
Mason's Rats: 3 Short Stories
Neal Asher
Mason has a rat problem on his farm, a serious problem, for these rats are armed and dangerous. But he soon learns that rats in suits are even worse. What do you do when rats invade your barn? Kill them or negotiate? Mason finds out the hard way that...
Mindgames: Fool's Mate
Neal Asher
Jason Carroll, an ex SAS soldier and contract killer is convinced he will die in action. It is thus embarrassing when he is run over by a bus. It is even more embarrassing when he, and atheist, realises there is an afterlife… Resurrected on a huge fl...
Owning the Future: Short Stories
Neal Asher
I’ve chosen stories other people have published here and there, and filled in with those I really think someone should have published. Here you’ll find some Polity tales, some that could have been set in the Polity (at a stretch) and some from the bl...
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 ...
Runcible Tales
Neal Asher
This is a 'chapbook' of five short stories.It consists of: Always With YouWebster engages on a mission to destroy a Prador planet breaker. It helps if you have Horace Blegg on your side, and an internal medic, but are these enough to overcome overwhe...
Snow in the Desert
Neal Asher
In the parched, arid wastes of this far-flung Polity world, Snow is being hunted. With a prize on his head and his life in danger, trust is a luxury he can’t afford. Hirald, pale and deadly in the blistering heat, is an ambiguous presence. But who is...
War Bodies
Neal Asher
Rebellion could be their salvation – or their doom. War Bodies by Neal Asher is a gripping, high-octane standalone set in his expansive Polity universe. Long ago, the Cyberat left Earth to co-evolve with machines. Now, led by the powerful dictator Ca...
Weaponized
Neal Asher
A bright new future for humanity – or a dark and inescapable past. Ursula has lived twice the normal human lifespan, courtesy of the latest technology. But now she’s struggling to find excitement and purpose, so signs up to the Polity’s military. She...
