Russell's ebook Library
All the Lives He Led
Frederik Pohl
Two thousand years after Pompeii’s destruction, a thriller of upheaval — volcanic and political — as only SF Grandmaster Frederik Pohl can write it!With a keen eye for the humanity in any situation, science fiction icon Frederik Pohl has crafted a co...
The Annals of the Heechee
Frederik Pohl
Heechee [4]: This fourth and concluding volume in Pohl's popular Heechee Saga takes place 100 years after the first, Gateway, when the discovery of abandoned alien spaceships opened the galaxy to human exploration.Now allies, human and Heechee, are g...
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Frederik Pohl
Heechee [2]: Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory - a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food...
The Boy Who Would Live Forever
Frederik Pohl
In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time.More than twenty-five years later, Pohl completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe: The Boy...
The Far Shore of Time
Frederik Pohl
Eschaton [3]: Dan Dannerman has been through hell. Caught in the middle of an interstellar war that will end only with the death of the universe, he's been captured by aliens who call themselves the Beloved Leaders, cloned repeatedly, torn from his w...
Farthest Star
Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
Saga of Cuckoo [1]: There was no shortage of danger on Cuckoo. 20,000 light years away, the enormous flat surface of Cuckoo travelling at one-sixth the speed of light aimed arrow-straight at the galaxy.Sun One sent the space probe Aurora with a crew ...
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
Heechee [1]: Wealth... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered.Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They ar...
Heechee Rendezvous
Frederik Pohl
Heechee [3]: Just outside the Milky Way lurked the would-be destroyers of the universe. Humans called them the Foe. Heechee called them Assassins. No one who had ever seen them had lived to tell the tale.
Homegoing
Frederik Pohl
Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy. The only unusual thing about him was that Sandy had been raised by aliens on their spaceship.The Hakh'hli had done everything they could to give Sandy an Earth-type boyhood. Now, finally, the Hakh'hli were br...
Jem
Frederik Pohl
The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instea...
The Last Theorem
Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
The Last Theorem is a story of one man's mathematical obsession, and a celebration of the human spirit and the scientific method.It is also a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, the G...
Man Plus
Frederik Pohl
Man Plus [1]: Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster - a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mar...
Mars Plus
Frederik Pohl and Thomas T. Thomas
Man Plus [2]: The events chronicled in the award-winning Man Plus were only the beginning.It is 50 years later. Man is on Mars to stay.But things have become strange, even compared to the population of cyborgs and human misfits who now occupy the Red...
The Merchants' War
Frederik Pohl
Space Merchants [2]: Sequel to The Space Merchants.EarthDominated by rapacious advertising agencies which control not only every aspect of government, but ultimately every aspect of human life...VenusA small rebel colony, desperately struggling to fr...
Mining the Oort
Frederik Pohl
Mars was harsh and unforgiving, but for the colonists who called it home, its future was as bright as the comets that hung in the night sky, for locked in those icy bodies were the water and gases that would make Mars live again, mined from the vast ...
O Pioneer!
Frederik Pohl
Evesham Givt was making a living by freelancing for Earth corporations (and diverting a portion of the corporate funds into his pockets) when he learned of the colony world of Tupelo, settled by five different alien species, where he and his girlfrie...
The Other End of Time
Frederik Pohl
Eschaton [1]: Strange signals have reached the Earth, warning of its destruction by malevolent aliens known as the Horch.Within a year there is evidence that the aliens who sent the warning, known only as the Beloved Leaders, have taken over the Star...
Outnumbering the Dead
Frederik Pohl
The tale of an actor, Rafiel, who is living on a far-future Earth, one where a simple organization in childhood brings immortality for all.Except a handful of people who prove immune and who live their lives as mortals in an immortal society.
The Siege of Eternity
Frederik Pohl
Eschaton [2]: The aliens aren't coming. They're here. We've captured several of them. The human race can't decide. Are they our saviors or out to destroy us?The government has had no luck in their interrogation of their prisoners. We've seen no space...
The Singers of Time
Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
When the conquering aliens on Earth find out that their home planet has been destroyed, they turn to the humans - whom they have long treated as intellectually inferior - for the scientific help they need to rescue their planet.
The Space Merchants
Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
Space Merchants [1]: It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtena...
Starburst
Frederik Pohl
THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTESTThe crew of the Constitution-scientists cum astronauts-had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they...
The Starchild Trilogy
Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
An interstellar trilogy - complete in one volume.Earth in the near future is governed by the Plan of Man - a complex set of laws enforced by a worldwide computerized security network, necessary for the survival of humankind. Or, so the authorities sa...
Stopping at Slowyear
Frederik Pohl
Most of the galaxy has outgrown the need for the antiquated trading ship Nordvik, lumbering through space with its stock of equally outdated appliances, data, genetic material, and crafts made by the crew to keep from going crazy between stops.But Sl...
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