Russell's ebook Library
Countdown City
Ben H. Winters
Last Policeman [2]: Now Detective Hank Palace returns in Countdown City, the second volume of the Last Policeman trilogy. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord poli...
Counter-Clock World
Philip K. Dick
In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick’s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase – a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signi...
Courtship Rite
Donald Kingsbury
The planet of Geta is a harsh and unforgiving world where only one source of meat exists: man.Cyclical famines have made a distinct, ritualistic form of cannibalism a necessity, and intricate rituals involving courtship, love, death, and multiple mar...
Cowl
Neal Asher
In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the Umbrathane have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc acros...
The Crack in Space
Philip K. Dick
A repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world.Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy mil...
Cradle
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
In 1994, an experimental navy missile mysteriously disappears off the coast of Florida during testing. While investigating the link between the disappearance and some unusual whale sightings, journalist Carol Dawson finds much more: a strange golden ...
Crash
J. G. Ballard
The cult status of "Crash" has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a 'TV scientist', experiments with e...
Crashcourse
Wilhelmina Baird
Crashcourse [1]: Baird's stunning debut is the cybershock novel of the year.Dosh has sold his good looks once too often to rough customers. He's so desperate to get off the planet and start a new life that he persuades friends Moke and Cass to sign a...
Crashlander
Larry Niven
Crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer has long been one of the most popular characters in Known Space. Now, for the first time ever, Larry Niven brings together all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories - including a brand-new one - in one long tale of exploration and...
Creation Machine
Andrew Bannister
Spin Trilogy [1]: It is the aftermath of civil war in the vast pageant of planets and stars known as The Spin. Three years since he crushed the rebellion, Viklun Haas, industrialist and leader of the Hegemony, is eliminating all remnants of the oppos...
Crescent City Rhapsody
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Nanotech Cycle [3]: In 2012, a mysterious alien signal from space strikes Earth, sending the Information Age into a horrifying tailspin.An intermittent Silence descends on the planet, disrupting all electronic devices and sparking a virus that nine m...
Cretan Teat
Brian W Aldiss
Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus.This false icon gets adopted by the people – and so becomes instrumental in the downfall of mankind.This is a story wh...
Crux
Ramez Naam
Nexus [2]: Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place.In the United States, the terrorists - or freedom fighters - of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human ...
Cryoburn
Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles Vorkosigan [12]: Miles Vorkosigan is back!Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove - he's been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair p...
Cryptozoic!
Brian W Aldiss
The human consciousness had now widened so alarmingly, was so busy transforming everything on Earth into its own peculiar tones, that no art could exist that did not take proper cognisance of the fact. Something entirely new had to be forged.The time...
The Crystal Crypt
Philip K. Dick
The Crystal Crypt... Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl.
Crystal Rain
Tobias S. Buckell
Xenowealth [1]: Long ago, so the stories say, the old-fathers came to Nanagada through a worm's hole in the sky. Looking for a new world to call their own, they brought with them a rich mélange of cultures, religions, and dialects from a far-off plan...
The Crystal World
J. G. Ballard
Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses.Most...
The Cult of Loving Kindness
Paul Park
Starbridge Chronicles [3]: The revolution has torn down the old Starbridge regime and its harsh authoritarian religion, but remnants of the old ways remain, especially in its more remote rural areas, and the forbidden Cult of Loving Kindness has begu...
The Currents of Space
Isaac Asimov
Galactic Empire [3]: High above planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperi...
Cyberbooks
Ben Bova
Computer genius Carl Lewis has invented the "Cyberbook", an electronic device that instantly and inexpensively brings the written word to the masses.But not everyone warms to Carl's ideas. Add corporate spies, authors threatening to strike, and a wav...
Cyteen
C. J. Cherryh
Cyteen [1]: The first part of C. J. Cherryh's award-winning triad introduces the planet and complex politics of Cyteen, part of the Alliance/Union universe. Resources are limited and the scientific compound of Reseune, which produces computer-trained...
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