Russell's ebook Library
Ancient Shores
Jack McDevitt
Ancient Shores [1]: Early in the next century, outside a North Dakota town, farmer Tom Lasker digs up a boat on his land. Not only is the vessel crafted from an unknown element, but Lasker's farm is on land that has been dry for 10,000 years.A search...
The Cassandra Project
Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick
Formerly a cynical, ambitious PR man, Jerry Culpepper finally found a client he could believe in when he was hired as NASA's public affairs director.Proud of the Agency's history and sure of its destiny, he was thrilled to be a part of its future. Bu...
Cauldron
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [6]: Chosen as One of the Five Best SF Novels of the Year by Library Journal.When a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, veteran star pilot Priscilla ?Hutch? Hutchins finds herself...
Chindi
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [3]: The universe has been explored - and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life.Then an alien satellite orbiting a distant star sends out as unreadable signal. It is the final programmed gasp of an ancient. Lo...
Coming Home
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [7]: In this “fun-filled adventure” from the Nebula Award–winning author of Beyond the Sky, Alex Benedict must pull off a crucial space rescue… Garnett Baylee devoted his life to trying, and failing, to find artifacts of the early spac...
Deepsix
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [2]: It should have been a straightforward exercise; but they were reckoning without mechanical failures, earthquakes and hostile indigenous species.It’s 2225. Mankind has reached the outskirts of the universe, and discovered evidence ...
The Devil's Eye
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [4]: Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene - who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her past life, or of her plea for assistance. But she has ...
Echo
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [5]: Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and...
The Engines of God
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [1]: Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery…In the far reaches of the solar system: a huge statue of an alien creature, with an inscription that defied all efforts of translation.Now, faster-than-light drive opens the ...
Eternity Road
Jack McDevitt
How would we appear to achaeologists thousands of years in the future?A long, long way into the future, a team of archaeologists are discovering some amazing finds they believe date from around the late 20th century. What are these strange metal cans...
Firebird
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [6]: Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies.Alex Benedict and Ch...
The Hercules Text
Jack McDevitt
From a remote corner of the galaxy a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular... artificial. It can only be a code.Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher the alien communication. And what the scie...
Infinity Beach
Jack McDevitt
We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of SETI searches and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled by Earthlings, and the starships that knit them together.No life has been found. No...
The Long Sunset
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [8]: Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins discovers an interstellar message from a highly advanced race that could be her last chance for a mission before the program is shut down for good. Hutch has been the Academy’s best pilot for decades. S...
Moonfall
Jack McDevitt
The ultimate disaster novel. IT’S TIME TO PANIC…A comet is coming. It’s going to hit the moon. And the moon is going to fall.On us.Out of the blindside of a total solar eclipse comes a fundamental threat to life on our planet. Moonbase, the NASA proj...
Octavia Gone
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [8]: After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact — which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their ...
Odyssey
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [5]: To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems.But Academy pilot Valentina Kouros and the team o...
Omega
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [4]: For a quarter of a century, mankind has known about the existence of the malignant omega clouds. Huge waves of deadly energy, they seem bent on destroying any civilization they come across.Now, Earth itself is in the line of fire ...
Polaris
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [2]: With Polaris, Jack McDevitt returns to the universe inhabited by Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath, last seen in A Talent For War.Benedict is a seller of antiquarian artifacts mostly having to do with space travel and he's got a curr...
Seeker
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [3]: Near the end of the twenty-seventh century, when the interstellar age was just dawning, two ships set out from Earth to escape the fascist theocracy that had taken over North America. One was the Bremerhaven, the other the Seeker. ...
Starhawk
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [7]: Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences. This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure…Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins has finally completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for her pilot’s license. But faste...
A Talent for War
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [1]: Christopher Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a rag-tag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the alien Ashiyyur. But now, one man believes Sim was a fraud, and Alex must follow the legend into the heart of...
Thunderbird
Jack McDevitt
Ancient Shores [2]: A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an app...
Time Travelers Never Die
Jack McDevitt
When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time - or worse - Shel enlists the aid of Dave MacElroy, a linguist, to accompany him o...
