Russell's ebook Library
Agent to the Stars
John Scalzi
The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge.The Yherajk ne...
The Android's Dream
John Scalzi
A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most... unusual... way.To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: a type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coro...
The Collapsing Empire
John Scalzi
Interdependency [1]: Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible — until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other star...
The Consuming Fire
John Scalzi
Interdependency [2]: The Interdependency — humanity’s interstellar empire — is on the verge of collapse.The extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible is disappearing, leaving entire systems and human civilizations strande...
The End of All Things
John Scalzi
Old Man's War [6]: Humans expanded into space... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Eart...
Fuzzy Nation
John Scalzi
Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting an...
The Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi
Old Man's War [2]: The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong,...
The God Engines
John Scalzi
Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to w...
Head On
John Scalzi
Lock In [2]: Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this w...
The Human Division
John Scalzi
Old Man's War [5]: THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE IS AT STAKELieutenant Harry Wilson has an impossible mission. He must help preserve the union of humanity's colonies, in the wake of a terrible revelation. For years the Colonial Union has protected its ...
The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi
The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food d...
The Last Colony
John Scalzi
Old Man's War [3]: Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys ...
The Last Emperox
John Scalzi
Interdependency [3]: The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systems — and billions of people — are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization.This collapse...
Lock In
John Scalzi
Lock In [1]: Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the Unit...
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
Old Man's War [1]: John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scar...
Redshirts
John Scalzi
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship's Xenobiology laborat...
Zoe's Tale
John Scalzi
Old Man's War [4]: How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do.I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstel...
