Russell's ebook Library
The Female Man
Joanna Russ
Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world.Janet is from Whileaw...
Fiasco
Stanislaw Lem
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of ph...
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Gene Wolfe
Far from Earth two sister planets, Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix, circle each other. It is said that a race of shapeshifting aliens once lived here, only to become extinct when human colonists arrived. But one man believes they still exist, somewhere ...
The Final Encyclopedia
Gordon R. Dickson
Childe Cycle [7]: The Final Encyclopedia tells of the events which occur when the human race is split into three splinter cultures: the Friendlies, fanatic in their faith; the truth-seeking Exotics; and the warrior Dorsai.But now humanity is threaten...
The Final Key
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [11]: The Final Key is the second half of the story arc known as Triad, which began in Schism.Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family. With The Final Key, the Skolian Empire comes ...
Finch
Jeff Vandermeer
Ambergris [3]: AMBERGRIS: 239 Manzikert Avenue, Apartment 525. Two dead bodies lie on a dusty floor. One corpse is cut in half, the other is utterly unmarked. Only one is human.Ambergris is occupied, ruined and rotting. Its buildings are crumbling, o...
Finches of Mars
Brian W Aldiss
In this thoughtful meditation on the future of humanity, colonists on Mars struggle to prevent their own extinction.Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp. For many, Mars...
Find the Changeling
Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
The Changeling could become anyone or anything - man, woman, child, animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction. Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of Alvea for its next mission - to throw an entire world into eter...
Finder
Suzanne Palmer
Finder [1]: Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hun...
Finity's End
C. J. Cherryh
Company Wars [7]: Set in the far-future age introduced in her Hugo Award-winning novels Cyteen and Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh tells the story of the oldest Merchanter ship of all, Finity's End.In an era of spies, pirate traders, and uneasy alli...
Fire Time
Poul Anderson
The planet Ishtar has three suns:Bel, the "real" sun, the Life Giver.Ea, the Companion who warms the Ishtaran summers.Anu, the Demon Star.Mostly Anu is so far away that it is just a light in the Ishtaran sky. But once every thousand years it comes cl...
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Qeng Ho [2]: Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone - but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unpredictable, godlike "Powers". When human meddling...
Fire With Fire
Charles E. Gannon
Tales of the Terran Republic [1]: 2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth's Moon — a history-making clandestine project — and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan a...
A Fire in the Sun
George Alec Effinger
Marid Audran [2]: In a world filled with so many puppets, strings tend to get tangled.In this follow-up to the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel WHEN GRAVITY FAILS, the Budayeen is still a very dangerous place, a high-tech Arabian ghetto where power and...
Firebird
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [6]: Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies.Alex Benedict and Ch...
The Fires of Aurelius
Robert M. Kerns
Cole & Srexx [4]: An unknown task force. The Coalition shattered. Haven destroyed?The Haven Protectorate continues to chip away at the Coalition's holdings through guile and subterfuge... and supplying resistance movements. Cole doesn't want an all-o...
Firewalkers
Adrian Tchaikovsky
FIREWALKERS ARE BRAVEFIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFULFIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLEThe Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And th...
First Lensman
E. E. Doc Smith
Lensman [2]: In the not too distance future, while fleets of commercial space ships travel between the planets of numerous solar systems, a traveler named Virgil Samms visits the planet Arisia. There he becomes the first wearer of the Lens, the almos...
First Meetings in Ender's Universe
Orson Scott Card
Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game - winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel - and enter his Universe through this collection of stories."The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father ...
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells
This is one of Wells's greatest novels, and the only one of his scientific romances to embrace space travel.Thanks to the discovery of an anti-gravity metal, Cavorite, two Victorian Englishmen travel to the Moon, where they encounter the extraordinar...
Firstborn
Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
Time Odyssey [3]: The Firstborn - the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey - have inhabited legendary master of science fiction Sir Arthur C. Cl...
Fleet of Knives
Gareth L. Powell
Embers of War [2]: The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew follow a distress call from the human starship Lucy's Ghost, whose crew have sought refuge aboard an abandoned generation ship launched ten thousand years before by an alien race. However...
The Flight of the Horse
Larry Niven
'We don't know where on Earth you'll wind up,' Ra Chen had told him. And the Director of the Institute for Temporal Research didn't know precisely when, either. All he knew was that Hanville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2,000 years.B...
Floating Worlds
Cecelia Holland
Two thousand years into the future, runaway pollution has made the earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes.The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus, and the moon suppor...
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
Philip K. Dick
On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was - a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his ex...
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