Russell's ebook Library
O Pioneer!
Frederik Pohl
Evesham Givt was making a living by freelancing for Earth corporations (and diverting a portion of the corporate funds into his pockets) when he learned of the colony world of Tupelo, settled by five different alien species, where he and his girlfrie...
Oath of Fealty
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty.But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state...
Occupy Me
Tricia Sullivan
Tricia Sullivan returns to the genre with a page-turning, surreal high-concept science fiction that will define the conversation within the genre for years to come. Pearl is an angel. She works for the Resistance - an organization dedicated to improv...
Oceans of Venus
Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr [3]: On Venus an underwater colony of earthmen is threatened with disaster, locked in a battle for survival beneath the waves.David Starr has come to face the evil menace of the depths...
Octavia Gone
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [8]: After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact — which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their ...
Odd John
Olaf Stapledon
John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him.And Odd John has a plan to create a new order on Earth, a new supernormal spec...
Odyssey
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [5]: To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems.But Academy pilot Valentina Kouros and the team o...
Of Fire and Night
Kevin J. Anderson
Saga of Seven Suns [5]: In the fifth book of The Saga of Seven Suns, a climactic battle begins between the Ildiran Solar Navy, the Earth Defense Forces, the Roamers, green priests, Klikiss robots, and hydrogue warglobes.
Of Men and Monsters
William Tenn
Giant, technologically superior aliens have conquered Earth, but humankind survives - even flourishes in a way.Men and women live like mice in burrows in the massive walls of the huge homes of the aliens, scurrying about under their feet, stealing fr...
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Lydia Millet
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb — Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi — as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945... and places them...
The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistak...
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
Old Man's War [1]: John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scar...
Old Twentieth
Joe Haldeman
The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity's past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days - when people's bodies were unable to spontaneously heal, and disease and age were actual causes of death. Immer...
Olympos
Dan Simmons
Ilium [2]: Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative.But that was before one observer - Twenty-first Century scholar T...
Omega
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [4]: For a quarter of a century, mankind has known about the existence of the malignant omega clouds. Huge waves of deadly energy, they seem bent on destroying any civilization they come across.Now, Earth itself is in the line of fire ...
The Omicron Invasion
E. E. Doc Smith and Stephen Goldin
Family d'Alembert [9]: The d'Alemberts, a family of spies, thieves, and revolutionaries working for Empress Stanley Nine of the Empire of the Earth, learn that their planet Omicron has been conquered by aliens and they team up with treacherous Lady A...
On Wings of Song
Thomas M. Disch
In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leaves behind the repression and censorship of the Midwest to pursue a career in New York, despite the famine and poverty of the overpopulated East Coast.
On the Steel Breeze
Alastair Reynolds
Poseidon's Children [2]: It is a thousand years in the future. Mankind is making its way out into the universe on massive generation ships.A fleet of holoships is heading towards the nearest habitable planet at 15% the speed of light. In massive aste...
One Day All This Will Be Yours
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Welcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day.Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there’s no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that’s sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time.I wa...
One Step From Earth
Harry Harrison
After years of research, man's dream of instantaneous transportation through the universe has been realized. Humanity begins to explore, settle and colonize throughout the universe, but in doing so finds itself changing.One Step From EarthPressureNo ...
One of Us
Michael Marshall Smith
It's 2017, and the first time we meet Hap Thompson he's being hassled in a bar in Ensenada by his alarm clock, which not only talks but walks and has a bad attitude. Hap, a prodigious computer hacker with a pretty bad attitude himself, works for an o...
Only Begotten Daughter
James Morrow
It could only happen in New Jersey.Call it a miracle. Call it the Second Coming. Call it a mishap at the sperm bank. But somehow, a baby daughter was born to the virgin Murray Katz, and her name is Julie. She can heal the blind, raise the dead, and g...
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith
Stark is a troubleshooter. He lives in The City - a massive conglomeration of self-governing Neighbourhoods, each with their own peculiarity. Stark lives in Colour, where computers co-ordinate the tone of the street lights to match the clothes that p...
The Ophiuchi Hotline
John Varley
Eight Worlds [1]: The invaders came in 2050…They did not kill anyone outright. hey said they came on behalf of the intelligent species of Earth — dolphins and whales. The Invaders quietly destroyed every evidence of technology, then peacefully depart...
Orbital Resonance
John Barnes
Century Next Door [1]: Young Melpomene Murray lives on an asteroid colony, thousands of miles from an Earth nearly destroyed by disease, war, and pollution.She has been trained since birth to lead mankind into the future.But Melpomene has plans of he...
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