Russell's ebook Library
Factoring Humanity
Robert J. Sawyer
In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psychology department, has devoted her career to deciphe...
The Faded Sun Trilogy
C. J. Cherryh
They were the mri-tall, secretive, bound by honor and the rigid dictates of their society. For aeons this golden-skinned, golden-eyed race had provided the universe mercenary soldiers of almost unimaginable ability. But now the mri have faced an enem...
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction...
Fairyland
Paul J. McAuley
The 21st century. Europe is divided between the First World bourgeoisie, made rich by nanotechnology and the cheap versatile slave labour of genetically engineered Dolls and the Fourth World of refugees and homeless displaced by war and economic uphe...
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Hyperion Cantos [2]: In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention.On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they c...
A Fall of Moondust
Arthur C. Clarke
Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist-cruiser "Selene", incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the pitiless and unpredictable conditions of a t...
The Fall of the Towers
Samuel R. Delany
Come and enter Samuel Delany’s tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, criminals and courtiers, fishermen and factory-workers, madmen and mind-readers, dwarves and ducheses, giants and geniuses, merchants and mathematic...
Fallen Angels
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn
One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government. That government, dedicated to saving the ...
Fallen Dragon
Peter F. Hamilton
Born in a colony world in 2310, Lawrence Newton hankered after the golden era of starships exploring the galaxy. But the age of human starflight was drawing to a close, so this hot-heated teenager ran away from home in search of adventure.Twenty year...
Falling Free
Lois McMaster Bujold
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what’s wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it.But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat....
The Falling Woman
Pat Murphy
Elizabeth Waters, an archeologist who abandoned her husband and daughter years ago to pursue her career, can see the shadows of the past. It's a gift she keeps secret from her colleagues and students, one that often leads her to incredible archeologi...
Family Matters: A Short Story
Peter F. Hamilton
Greg Mandel [1]: A short story featuring Greg Mandel.Richard Townsend would proudly call himself a man of business as he secures a lucrative, though not entirely legal, financial deal. What he believes to be easy money turns his life into a nightmare...
The Family Tree
Sheri S. Tepper
THE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK.Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things ...
Fantastic Voyage
Isaac Asimov
Fantastic Voyage [1]: Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain.If they fail, the entire world will b...
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain
Isaac Asimov
Fantastic Voyage [2]: From the phenomenal Isaac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage II, the fabulous sequel to bestselling Fantastic Voyage, is a powerful high-tech thriller set in the near future and in a human brain!A band of Americans and Russians are miniat...
Fantastical
Neal Asher
Fantastical: a short story collection. I’m known for science fiction and, generally, that work is what ends up as a book or in some story collection. But as over the years I scrabbled around to find my opening I also wrote fantasy, contemporary and s...
Far North
Marcel Theroux
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to ...
The Far Shore of Time
Frederik Pohl
Eschaton [3]: Dan Dannerman has been through hell. Caught in the middle of an interstellar war that will end only with the death of the universe, he's been captured by aliens who call themselves the Beloved Leaders, cloned repeatedly, torn from his w...
Farmer in the Sky
Robert A. Heinlein
The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family.Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the...
Farnham's Freehold
Robert A. Heinlein
You Would Have Peace? Then Prepare for War!Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man. and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war.What he hadn't expected was t...
Farside
Ben Bova
Grand Tour [19]: Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.Telescopes on Earth have...
Farthest Star
Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
Saga of Cuckoo [1]: There was no shortage of danger on Cuckoo. 20,000 light years away, the enormous flat surface of Cuckoo travelling at one-sixth the speed of light aimed arrow-straight at the galaxy.Sun One sent the space probe Aurora with a crew ...
The Fated Sky
Mary Robinette Kowal
Lady Astronaut [2]: One large step for humankind…It’s 1961, and the Earth’s gaze is turning to Mars. The Moon colony is well established, but tensions are rising on Earth — both from those who see themselves being left behind on a disaster-laden plan...
Feed
Mira Grant
Newsflesh [1]: The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstopp...
Feersum Endjinn
Iain M. Banks
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time...Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones...And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the c...
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