Russell's ebook Library
Leviathans of Jupiter
Ben Bova
Grand Tour [13]: In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environm...
Life
Gwyneth Jones
"Life" is a richly textured fictional biography of the brilliant Anna Senoz, a scientist who makes a momentous discovery about the X and Y chromosomes.Anna's discovery provokes widespread sexual rage and impacts cruelly on her career, her marriage, a...
Life After Wartime
Paul J. McAuley
Three long stories and twelve short stories and snapshots set in the aftermath of a short, sharp asymmetrical war between Earth and colonists of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and in the subsequent golden age of exploration and colonisation of the ...
Life During Wartime
Lucius Shepard
Richly peopled, highly literate, and brilliantly drawn...In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive amongst the rotting vegetation and his despairing fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an ...
Life in the West
Brian W Aldiss
Squire Quartet [1]: Thomas C. Squire, creator of the hit documentary series Frankenstein Among the Arts, one-time secret agent and founder of the Society for Popular aesthetics, is attending an international media symposium in Sicily.It is here that ...
Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams
HHGTTG [3]: In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And just when he thinks things cannot possibly get any worse, they do. He discovers t...
Light
M. John Harrison
Light [1]: It's 1999, and British scientist Michael Kearney and his American partner, Brian Tate, are studying laboratory quantum physics; unbeknownst to them, they'll become the fathers of interplanetary travel.Kearney nervously holds a pair of pred...
The Light Brigade
Kameron Hurley
They said the war would turn us into light.I wanted to be counted among the heroes who gave us this better world.The Light Brigade: it's what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back... different. Grunts in the corporate cor...
Light Chaser
Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell
A love powerful enough to transcend death can bring down an entire empire.Amahle is a Light Chaser – one of a number of explorers, who travel the universe alone (except for their onboard AI), trading trinkets for life stories. But when she listens to...
Light From Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with...
Light Music
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Nanotech Cycle [4]: When Crescent City, the sentient hub of a world reinvented by nanotechnology and cosmic revelations, falls under attack by pirates, Jason Peabody, one of the few remaining humans who remembers a time when the world relied on exter...
Light of Impossible Stars
Gareth L. Powell
Embers of War [3]: Low on fuel and hunted by the Fleet of Knives, the sentient warship Trouble Dog heads to the Intrusion - an area of space where reality itself becomes unstable. But with human civilisation crumbling, what difference can one battere...
The Light of Other Days
Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
’Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?’With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. With OurWorld’s development of wormhole t...
Limbo
Bernard Wolfe
In the aftermath of an atomic war, a new international movement of pacifism has arisen. Multitudes of young men have chosen to curb their aggressive instincts through voluntary amputation - disarmament in its most literal sense. Those who have underg...
Limits
Larry Niven
A masterful mix of fantasy and science fiction.The Lion in His AtticSpirals (by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)A Teardrop FallsTalisman (by Larry Niven and Dian Girard)Flare TimeThe Locusts (by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes)Yet Another Modest Prop...
Line War
Neal Asher
Agent Cormac [5]: The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus' worm ships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricu...
The Line of Polity
Neal Asher
Agent Cormac [2]: Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium, and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved. Sent out on a tita...
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
Little Brother [1]: Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works - and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his hi...
Little Fuzzy
Henry Beam Piper
The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits...
Living Next-Door to the God of Love
Justina Robson
Metropolis is a city of superheroes where you can become anyone you like - fight all day, party all night... Sankhara is a universe where everything is remade by night, according to the inhabitants’ deepest, darkest dreams... Koker Ai is a city of an...
Lock In
John Scalzi
Lock In [1]: Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the Unit...
Lockdown Tales
Neal Asher
Neal Asher was far from idle during the isolation of lockdown; he kept himself occupied in the best way possible: he wrote. And his imagination was clearly in overdrive. Five brand new novellas and novelettes and one novella reworked and expanded fro...
Lockdown Tales II
Neal Asher
A collection of nine novelettes and stories from best-selling SF author Neal Asher (150,000 words of fiction between them), all written during lockdown and including four that are original to this volume. Some of these thrilling and inventive narrati...
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton
Larry Niven
Gil Hamilton [2]: Armed for death in the outer reaches of the galaxy, Gil Hamilton is the global police force's top operative. He can reach into a man's brain for the truth... or for the kill.But Gil's peerless intuition, devastating psychic powers ...
The Long Cosmos
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Long Earth [5]: 2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: “Join us.”The Next — the hyper-intelligent post-humans — realize that the missive contains instructions...
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