Russell's ebook Library
Beyond the Hallowed Sky
Ken MacLeod
Lightspeed [1]: Science fiction legend Ken MacLeod begins a new space opera trilogy by imagining humankind on the precipice of discovery - the invention of faster-than-light travel unlocks a universe of new possibilities, and new dangers. When a bril...
Beyond the Reach of Earth
Ken MacLeod
Lightspeed [2]: THE FERMI ARE AWAKE. With the invention of faster-than-light travel there is nowhere that humanity cannot go. New worlds are discovered, but with them come new dangers. At the heart of the discovery is the Fermi, mysterious beings tha...
Cosmonaut Keep
Ken MacLeod
Engines of Light [1]: When Alexander Cairns made his fortune, he did some gambling - financing interstallar probes to look for other life forms. Now his son has discovered that one of them has sent back evidence of alien intelligence, and a space ark...
Dark Light
Ken MacLeod
Engines of Light [2]: The Second Sphere is thousands of light years away from Earth - if Earth still exists. For Matt Cairns and the cosmonauts of the Bright Star, this distant corner of the galaxy is their new home.But the Second Sphere is also home...
Descent
Ken MacLeod
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR THE TRUTH?Ball lightning. Weather balloons. Secret military aircraft. Ryan knows all the justifications for UFO sightings. But when something falls out of the sky on the hills near his small Scottish town, he finds his cynici...
Dissidence
Ken MacLeod
Corporation Wars [1]: They've died for the companies more times than they can remember. Now they must fight to live for themselves.Sentient machines work, fight and die in interstellar exploration and conflict for the benefit of their owners - the co...
Divisions - The Second Half of The Fall Revolution
Ken MacLeod
Fall Revolution [2]: The Cassini DivisionIn the 24th century, post humans, god-like descendents of humans who transformed themselves with high technology, have warped the very fabric of the solar system for unknowable reasons. Ellen May Ngewthu has a...
Emergence
Ken MacLeod
Corporation Wars [3]: The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resource-rich moon. Now it's enslaving conscious robots - and luring the Corporations into lucrative deals.Taransay is out in the jungle. Her friends are inside ...
Engine City
Ken MacLeod
Engines of Light [3]: For ten thousand years the varied races of the Second Sphere lived in peaceful co-existence, building their civilisations under the gaze of the ever-vigilant cometary minds.But then the cosmonauts of the Bright Star came. And wi...
The Execution Channel
Ken MacLeod
Fighting has spread across the Middle East and Central Asia to the borders of China. In the US, refugees from climate-change disaster subsist in FEMA camps. Images of official executions circulate on the Internet like al Qaeda videos. State agencies ...
Fractions - The First Half of The Fall Revolution
Ken MacLeod
Fall Revolution [1]: The Star FractionIn a newer world order where the peace process is deadlier than the wars...Moh Kohn is a security mercenary with a smart gun, reflexes to die for and memories he doesn't want to reach. Jamis Taine is a scientist ...
The Human Front
Ken MacLeod
Winner of a Prometheus and Sidewise Award, this science fiction novella is a comedic and biting commentary on capitalism and an exploration of technological singularity in a posthuman civilization. As a world war rages on without an emerging victor, ...
Insurgence
Ken MacLeod
Corporation Wars [2]: DIE FOR THE COMPANY, LIVE FOR THE PAYAnd the ultimate pay-off is DH-17, an Earth-like planet hundreds of light years from human habitation.Ruthless corporations vie over the prize remotely, and war is in full swing. But soldiers...
Intrusion
Ken MacLeod
Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child. Hope Morrison, mother of a hyp...
Learning the World
Ken MacLeod
British author MacLeod delivers perhaps the finest novel of first contact since Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky.When the starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! enters a new star system, its crew assumes that they will seed yet another human, or...
Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
Ken MacLeod
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture - a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings - a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered. Lucinda Ca...
The Night Sessions
Ken MacLeod
A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it's a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It's been a long time since anyone saw anything like thi...
The Restoration Game
Ken MacLeod
There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know — she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organizers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an...
