Russell's ebook Library
The Causal Angel
Hannu Rajaniemi
Jean le Flambeur [3]: With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterization and his unrivaled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science, Hannu Rajaniemi swiftly set a new benchmark for Science Fiction in the 21s...
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
Elijah Baley [1]: A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership betwee...
Celestis
Paul Park
Entering a Paul Park universe means slipping onto an eerily compelling plane where nearly palpable visions transform as disturbingly as the images in a sexually charged fever dream.While the world imagined here, with its imperial/colonial paradigm, s...
The Centauri Device
M. John Harrison
John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans, or at least half of him was, which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb whic...
Central Station
Lavie Tidhar
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns ...
Century Rain
Alastair Reynolds
Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust.After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to ...
Cetaganda
Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles Vorkosigan [3]: The hero, Miles Vorkosigan, is sent to represent his planet at the funeral of the empress of the planet Cetaganda.While there he becomes involved in a power struggle for the control of software used by Cetaganda's rulers to gene...
The Chantry Guild
Gordon R. Dickson
Childe Cycle [8]: A lone ship piloted by Dorsai Amanda Morgan runs the blockade of Earth. She has come to rouse Hal Mayne from his researches on The Final Encyclopedia.The news she brings is frightening: Bleys Ahrens plans to lead the forces of the Y...
Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune [6]: The long-established galactic order is passing. The Honoured Matres, ruthless and all-conquering, have destroyed the planet Dune.In opposition, the Bene Gesserit sisterhood co-ordinate their resistance from their home world, Chapter House.
Chasing the Dragon
Justina Robson
Quantum Gravity [4]: Lila Black returns in the fourth volume of high-octane, high-magic, high-tech adventures.Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, dem...
The Child Garden
Geoff Ryman
In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, And the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism. Information, culture, l...
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime.When they f...
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune [3]: The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone.But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their la...
Children of God
Mary Doria Russell
Sparrow [2]: The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alph...
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time [3]: The unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. When Earth failed, it sent out arkships to establish new outposts. So the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carrie...
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time [2]: The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, ...
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time [1]: A race for survival among the stars...Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?The last remnants of the...
Children of the Lens
E. E. Doc Smith
Lensman [6]: Children of the Lens is the sixth of the classic Lensman books, long recognized as the greatest space opera ever written.Twenty years have passed since the events portrayed in Second Stage Lensman. To Kimball Kinnison and his wife Clarri...
Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin [4]: Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card returns at last to the story of Ender Wiggin, the child hero of the Hugo and Nebula award winner Ender's Game, who as a man found a way to redeem the Xenocide of his youth and restore the Hive Q...
The Children of the Sky
Vernor Vinge
Qeng Ho [3]: Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have s...
Chilling Effect
Valerie Valdes
Chilling Effect [1]: Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister is kidnapped, Eva must undergo a series of dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may...
Chimera
Mira Grant
Parasitology [3]: The final book in Mira Grant's terrifying Parasitology trilogy.The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob. Sal and her family...
China Mountain Zhang
Maureen F. McHugh
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers.In its pages, we enter a postrevolution America, moving from the hyperurbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baff...
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...
A Choice of Gods
Clifford D. Simak
The Earth's population was more than eight billion. One day they were there, the next they were gone - all except the guests at a family birthday party, a small tribe of American Indians, and, of course, the robots. Technology disintegrated, the Indi...
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