Russell's ebook Library
The H-Bomb Girl
Stephen Baxter
Liverpool 1962. A place and time of danger and passion. A thrilling new music is bursting on to the grey streets of the post-war city: a music that electrifies, a music that promises to change everything. But in Cuba, on the other side of the earth, ...
HARM
Brian W Aldiss
From one of science fiction’s greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Orwell’s 1984, and Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. Both a searing indictment of a fear-drenched political...
The Hacker and the Ants
Rudy Rucker
Computer programmer Jerzy Rugby spends his days blissfully hacking away in cyberspace — aiding the GoMotion Corporation in its noble quest to create intelligent robots.Then an electronic ant gets into the machinery... then more ants... then millions ...
Half Past Human
T. J. Bass
A novel of dystopian future in the tradition of Soylent Green and H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.SF Masterworks #133
Halting State
Charles Stross
Halting State [1]: It was called in as a robbery at Hayek Associates, an online game company. So you can imagine Sergeant Sue Smith's mood as she watches the video footage of the heist being carried out by a band of orcs and a dragon, and realises th...
The Hammer of God
Arthur C. Clarke
A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued our time. However, a new problem is on the horizon — one greater than humanity has ever faced. A massive asteroid is racing toward the earth, and its impact could...
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words b...
Happy Policeman
Patricia Anthony
In the small Texas town of Coomey, the Torku deliver VCRs. Clothes. Gasoline. Even Twinkies and Diet Dr Pepper.It began six years ago, on Bomb Day, when the aliens put up the Line to block out the rest of the world. On all the radio bands there is no...
Hard Landing
Algis Budrys
The body was found dead on the tracks, electrocuted. The autopsy confirmed what some had always feared, that we are not alone in the universe - and that even now, some visitors are still at large.This started the investigation that revealed the starl...
Hard Magic
Larry Correia
The Grimnoir Chronicles [1]: Jake Sullivan is a war hero, a private eye — and an ex-con. He’s free because he has a magical talent, being able to alter the force of gravity in himself and objects in his vicinity, and the Bureau of Investigation calls...
Hard to Be a God
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages.Although in possession of far more advanced knowledge than the society around him, he is forbidden to interfere ...
Hardwired
Walter Jon Williams
Hardwired [1]: Earth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth’s Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, panzerjocks, dirtgirls, ...
Hav
Jan Morris
Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and recaptured by Saladin, visited by Tolstoy, Hitler, Grace Kelly, and Princess Diana, this Mediterranean city-state is home to several architectural marvels...
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
Robert A. Heinlein
A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations.First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Moon. The consolation prize ...
Haven Ascendant
Robert M. Kerns
Cole & Srexx [3]: Nothing is ever easy...Tensions rise as the Coalition pursues its war of conquest. Who will be their next target? The Provisional Parliament in the old Commonwealth sinks deeper into fascism as people flee their worlds in droves. Th...
Head On
John Scalzi
Lock In [2]: Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this w...
Headcrash
Bruce Bethke
A Junior Engineer for Monolithic Diversified Enterprises, Jack Burroughs finds himself caught in a tangled cyberweb of corporate double-dealing and virtual espionage.And when he's forced to put his life on-line, it becomes apparent that his grip on (...
Heads
Greg Bear
Queen of Angels [2]: In an abandoned mining colony at the Lunar Ice Pit Station, two experiments may science forever. One is achieving Absolute Zero--a temperature so cold it can bend the laws of physics. The other involves 410 human heads, severedan...
Heart of the Comet
David Brin and Gregory Benford
An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future.
Heathern
Jack Womack
Ambient [3]: The year is 1998, and the nightmare is close at hand. The world economy has gone into a mega-crash. Most of the population has been plunged into abject poverty. Anarchy and violence stalk the streets.All power is in the hands of Dryco, h...
The Heaven Makers
Frank Herbert
Immortal aliens have observed Earth for centuries, making full sensory movies of wars, natural disasters, and horrific human activities... all to relieve their boredom. When they finally became jaded by ordinary, run-of-the-mill tragedies, they found...
Heaven's Reach
David Brin
Uplift [6]: Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date - the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation.....
Heavy Planet
Hal Clement
Discover MESKLIN - Gravity: 3g at the equator, 700g at the poles!Hal Clement is a Grand Master of SF, and the one most associated with the subgenre of hard SF. From his classic stories in Astounding in the 1940s through his novels of the 1950s and on...
Heavy Time
C. J. Cherryh
Company Wars [4]: Discovered alone and without his memory on his drifting ship, pilot Paul Dekker is accused of the murder of his crew members and he must rely on the help of renegade miner Morris Bird to learn the truth.
Heechee Rendezvous
Frederik Pohl
Heechee [3]: Just outside the Milky Way lurked the would-be destroyers of the universe. Humans called them the Foe. Heechee called them Assassins. No one who had ever seen them had lived to tell the tale.
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