Russell's ebook Library
Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author.The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar , last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 hum...
Caine's Mutiny
Charles E. Gannon
Tales of the Terran Republic [4]: Caine Riordan, fresh from serving as envoy to the aliens known as the Slaasriithi, has been given yet another daunting task: apprehend raiders that are terrorizing a distant planet.As difficulties mount, Caine become...
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...
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
Lady Astronaut [1]: A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth's efforts...
Caliban's War
James S. A. Corey
Expanse [2]: We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting...
The California Voodoo Game
Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
Dream Park [4]: The ultimate in amusement parks was about to embark on the greatest Game ever: the California Voodoo Game. Across the world bets were being placed; fortunes and reputations hung in the balance. Gaming careers would be made - or destro...
The Caltraps of Time
David I. Masson
David I. Masson began publishing sf with "Traveller's Rest" for NEW WORLDS in 1965; his fiction, including this extraordinarily intense study in the distortion of PERCEPTION, was assembled in The Caltraps of Time (1968), which single volume establish...
Camouflage
Joe Haldeman
An unidentified artifact, found seven miles below the surface of the sea, stumps the scientists examining it. But it calls out to the two immortal creatures who have wandered the Earth for centuries. Two creatures who have never crossed paths - until...
Candle
John Barnes
Century Next Door [3]: Currie Culver is about fifty-five years old, in good health, living in a comfortable retirement in the Rockies with his wife. In the wake of the Meme Wars that swept the planet two generations before, Currie, his wife, and almo...
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The atomic Flame Deluge was over. The earth was dead.All knowledge was gone.In a hellish, barren desert, a humble monk unearth a fragile link to a twentieth century civilization. A hand-written document from the Blessed Saint Leibowitz reads: Pound p...
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Lois McMaster Bujold
GOOD INTENTIONS, BAD INTELCaptain Ivan Vorpatril sometimes thinks that if not for his family, he might have no troubles at all. But he has the dubious fortune of the hyperactive Miles Vorkosigan as a cousin, which has too-often led to his getting dra...
Captive Universe
Harry Harrison
In a valley lost somewhere in the Central American jungles lies an ancient Aztec civilization sealed off from the outside world. 21 years old, rebellious, Chimal wants desperately to escape. The cruel gods and priests who rule this inbred community w...
The Carhullan Army
Sarah Hall
The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy - is run by an omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have been seized, and women are ...
Carlucci's Edge
Richard Paul Russo
Lt. Frank Carlucci [2]: In the political network of the twenty-first century, some things never change...The future of crime is now.A small-time drug dealer is murdered. The mayor’s nephew is found dead. On the surface they are unrelated. But that su...
Carlucci's Heart
Richard Paul Russo
Lt. Frank Carlucci [3]: In the burned-out streets of 21st century San Francisco, Lt. Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter's friend - a dying man who was carried off mysteriously. It's one kidnapp...
Carnelians
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [14]: Two galactic emperors attempt to end a multi-generation war of the stars without both getting assassinated in the process. The leaders of the Eubian empire and Skolian Imperialate have survived political intrigue, military coups...
Carson of Venus
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Venus [3]: Carson of Venus is the third book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs.It was serialized in Argosy in 1938 and published in book form a year later.The novel, which was written c...
The Caryatids
Bruce Sterling
Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny ve...
A Case of Conscience
James Blish
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man - a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics... until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens...
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...
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Robert A. Heinlein
As the old guard of SF ages, we are getting more novels of nostalgia. Heinlein is less sentimental than many of his generation but his new book resembles both the latest Bradbury, in making the author the protagonist, and the latest Asimov, in return...
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous subst...
Catch the Lightning
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [2]: In the distant future, the Skolian empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all.For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light across t...
Catface
Clifford D. Simak
Asa Steele's dog finds dinosaur bones in his backyard, and down in the orchard they find strange metals. Asa then makes contact with a catfaced alien who holds the key to the mystery - a break in the fabric of time.
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...
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