Russell's ebook Library
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
In 1967, Samuel R. Delany was young, gay, black and possibly the hippest person on the planet. He was to write more perfect books than Babel-17, but it is perhaps the most delightful, clever and sensual of his works. Its set pieces - an extended wand...
Babylon's Ashes
James S. A. Corey
Expanse [6]: A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer ...
A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy
Alex White
The Salvagers [2]: The greatest dangers hide the brightest treasures in this bold, planet-hopping science fiction adventure series.The crew of the legendary Capricious are rich enough to retire in comfort for the rest of their days, but none of it ma...
Ball Lightning
Cixin Liu
When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon.His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and ...
Banner of Souls
Liz Williams
In the far-distant future a flooded and shattered Earth is governed by the iron hand of the Martian Matriarchy.Martian warrior Dreams-of-War is despatched to Earth to guard a young girl called Lunae from an unknown threat. The clone of an extraordina...
Bannerless
Carrie Vaughn
Bannerless Saga [1]: A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of ci...
Barefoot in the Head
Brian W Aldiss
The earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary weapon. Many humans are now suffering from delusions and are unable to tell the real from the imaginary. When a man named Colin Charteris tries to make...
Barrayar
Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia Naismith [2]: Following her marriage to the notorious "Butcher of Komarr" - Lord Aral Vorkosigan - Captain Cordelia Naismith has become an outcast in her own world. Sick of combat and betrayal, she prepares to settle down to a quiet life on ...
The Barsoom Project
Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
Dream Park [3]: Eviane's first visit to the-state-of-art amusement arena Dream Park ended in disaster: the special effects had seemed more real than life... until the holograms she was shooting with live ammunition turned out to be solid flesh and bl...
Battlefield Earth
L. Ron Hubbard
A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time, L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth opens with breathtaking scope on an Earth dominated for a thousand years by an alien invader - and ma...
Bear Head
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Dogs of War [2]: WELCOME TO HELL CITY, MARSJimmy Martin has a sore head.He's used to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first time it has started talking to him.The data claims to be a distinguished academic, author and civil ri...
Beasts
John Crowley
Painter is a leo - part man, part lion - the result of one of man's genetic experiments, a powerful, beautiful, enigmatic creature deemed a 'failure' to be be hunted down.But Painter has two advantages in this world of small bickering nation states a...
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Hank Green
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing [2]: The statutes disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. Well, that's not exactly true. Part of their impact...
Before Mars
Emma Newman
Planetfall [3]: Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a standalone dark tale of a woman stationed on Mars who slowly starts to doubt her own memories and sanity. After months of travel, Anna Kubrin finally a...
Beggars Ride
Nancy Kress
Sleepless [3]: The Sleepless and the SuperSleepless, two generations of genetically modified superhumans, are now in conflict with each other, and with the spectrum of normal humanity, whose radical division into the rich and poor has made a parody o...
Beggars and Choosers
Nancy Kress
Sleepless [2]: In Beggars and Choosers, Kress returns to the same future world created in her earlier work, an America strangely altered by genetic modifications.Millions of ordinary people are supported by the efforts of the handsome and intellectua...
Beggars in Spain
Nancy Kress
Sleepless [1]: In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to...
Belladonna Nights and Other Stories
Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds has continued to publish short fiction throughout the thirty-odd years of his professional career. This fourth collection gathers material mostly written by the former space scientist in the last decade, even as a number of stories ...
Bellwether
Connie Willis
Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennet O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company.When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad ...
The Best of Connie Willis
Connie Willis
Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. He...
The Best of Greg Egan
Greg Egan
Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificia...
The Best of Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Short story collection:Marooned Off VestaNightfallC-ChuteThe Martian WayThe DeepThe Fun They HadThe Last QuestionThe Dead PastThe Dying NightAnniversaryThe Billiard BallMirror Image
Between Planets
Robert A. Heinlein
Don Harvey was attending school on Earth when his parents suddenly and urgently called him home to Mars. He had been skeptical about the talk of interplanetary war breaking out if Mars and Venus followed through on their threats to declare independen...
Beyond Heaven's River
Greg Bear
Yoshio Kawashita is a great warrior until aliens whisk him away during World War II. They put him on a desolate planet far from his home, where he is destined to remain forever, leaving him alone in his new hell. Then Anna Nestor appears. This empres...
Beyond Infinity
Gregory Benford
BEYOND INFINITY takes a scientist's imagination to the uttermost ends of time.Set more than a billion years from now, the novel begins with a young woman who yearns to escape the rigid, timeless Earth she knows. So she flees, in the company of an int...
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