Russell's ebook Library
Hegira
Greg Bear
The planet Hegira is the universe’s melting pot. Hundreds of tribes in dozens of cities intermingle in the vast uncharted territory. The only thing holding the people together are the massive Obelisks, the chronicles of all the truths and falsehoods ...
Hellburner
C. J. Cherryh
Company Wars [5]: Following the debacle on their ship in "Heavy Time", Dekker and Pollard have been separated. Dekker has been testing out new, fast, powerful ships - the Hellburners - but something's gone wrong and Pollard is brought back to find ou...
Helliconia
Brian W Aldiss
Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters.The human-lik...
Hello America
J. G. Ballard
Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth century, America has been abandoned.Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns to the now climatically mutated continent. But America is unrecognizable — the Bering Strait has b...
Hellstrom's Hive
Frank Herbert
First published in 1974, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish e...
Hench
Natalie Zina Walschots
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an...
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
James Tiptree Jr.
For a decade Alice Sheldon produced an extraordinary body of work under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr, until her identity was exposed in 1977.Her Smoke Rose Up Forever presents the finest of these stories inclding the story for which she is best kno...
The Hercules Text
Jack McDevitt
From a remote corner of the galaxy a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular... artificial. It can only be a code.Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher the alien communication. And what the scie...
Heretics of Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune [5]: The people of the Scattering are returning. Amongst them, mysterious and threatening, are the women who call themselves the Honoured Matres, adepts of an ecstatic cult.On Rakis, become Dune, an ancient philosophy is fulfilled.
Heritage and Exile
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Darkover Omnibus [1]: The Heritage of Hastur (1975)A brilliant epic of the pivotal events in the love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien off-spring of the forgotten colonists who peopled Darkover.This is the complex and co...
Hidden Empire
Kevin J. Anderson
Saga of Seven Suns [1]: In our galaxy's distant future, humans are one of three known intelligent races. Having had the ability to navigate star travel for only a few centuries, we are considered "the new kids on the block" in a long-established univ...
The High Crusade
Poul Anderson
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little...
Hilldiggers
Neal Asher
Polity [2]: During a war between two planets in the same solar system - each occupied by adapted humans - what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the si...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
HHGTTG [1]: One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the week...
Hive Monkey
Gareth L. Powell
Ack-Ack Macaque [2]: In order to hide from his unwanted fame as the spitfire-pilot-monkey who emerged from a computer game to defeat the dangerous coporation who engineered him, the charismatic and dangerous Ack-Ack Macaque is working as a pilot on a...
A Hole in Space
Larry Niven
A short story collection.RammerThe Alibi MachineThe Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot ClubA Kind of MurderAll the Bridges RustingThere Is a TideBigger Than Worlds$16,940.00The Hole ManThe Fourth Profession
Holy Fire
Bruce Sterling
The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. Power is in the...
Homegoing
Frederik Pohl
Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy. The only unusual thing about him was that Sandy had been raised by aliens on their spaceship.The Hakh'hli had done everything they could to give Sandy an Earth-type boyhood. Now, finally, the Hakh'hli were br...
Homeland
Cory Doctorow
Little Brother [2]: In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco - an experience that led him to become a leader ...
Homeworld
Harry Harrison
To the Stars [1]: Jan Kulozik is one of earth's privilieged elite. A brilliant engineer, he enjoys all the blessings of a 23rd-century civilization which survived global collapse & conquered the stars.Then he meets Sara, the beautiful, desirable ...
Hominids
Robert J. Sawyer
Neanderthal Parallax [1]: Hominids is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but it's also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that will examine two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-en...
Horizon Storms
Kevin J. Anderson
Saga of Seven Suns [3]: Caught in the middle of a titanic struggle between two alien superpowers, the factions of humanity and their allies, the Ildirans, are under siege. Can they resolve their differences to fight a common threat? For the leader of...
Hothouse
Brian W Aldiss
The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention ...
House of Suns
Alastair Reynolds
Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fal...
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