Russell's ebook Library
Calculating God
Robert J. Sawyer
An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges and says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." In the distant past, Earth, the alien's home planet, and the home planet of a...
Factoring Humanity
Robert J. Sawyer
In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphe...
Frameshift
Robert J. Sawyer
Pierre Tardivel is a scientist working on the Human Genome Project with the Nobel Prize winner Dr. Burian Klimus. A driven man, Pierre works with the awareness that he may not have long to live: he has a fifty-fifty chance of dying from Huntington's ...
Hominids
Robert J. Sawyer
Neanderthal Parallax [1]: Hominids is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but it's also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that will examine two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-en...
Humans
Robert J. Sawyer
Neanderthal Parallax [2]: The background to Humans has Ponter Boddit happy to be back in his own world of Neanderthals. He has reunited with friends and family and returned to his life as a physicist. Yet he can't help but feel that there remains unf...
Hybrids
Robert J. Sawyer
Neanderthal Parallax [3]: In Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapien lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they p...
Rollback
Robert J. Sawyer
Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens.Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now 87, may hold the key to deciphering this one, too... if she lives long enough.A wealthy industriali...
Starplex
Robert J. Sawyer
A series of mysterious, artificial wormholes have brought the far reaches of space immediately close. But is the Earth ready for who - or what - the wormholes may bring?
The Terminal Experiment
Robert J. Sawyer
In this fast-paced thriller, Dr Peter Hobson's investigations into death and afterlife lead him to create three separate electronic versions of himself: one has no memory of physical existence and represents life after death; one has no knowledge of ...
Wake
Robert J. Sawyer
WWW [1]: Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where she makes contact with a mysterious co...
Watch
Robert J. Sawyer
WWW [2]: Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world.But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH - the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to ...
Wonder
Robert J. Sawyer
WWW [3]: Caitlin Decter discovered Webmind, the vast artificial intelligence that spontaneously emerged from the World Wide Web and changed the world - from curing cancer to easing international tensions.But the Pentagon has declared war on it, recru...
