Russell's ebook Library
The Children of the Sky
Vernor Vinge
Qeng Ho [3]: Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have s...
A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge
Qeng Ho [1]: This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep - but 30,000 years earlier.The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's...
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Qeng Ho [2]: Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone - but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unpredictable, godlike "Powers". When human meddling...
Marooned in Realtime
Vernor Vinge
Across Realtime [3]: Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel...
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....
Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge
Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and...
Tatja Grimm's World
Vernor Vinge
As a mud-spattered youngster, Tatja quickly realized she was different from the stone-age primitives with whom she grew up. Her insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge could not be quenched among them; she had to explore and learn more about th...
