Russell's ebook Library
Pandora's Star
Peter F. Hamilton
Commonwealth Saga [1]: The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes.At the farthes...
Panglor
Jeffrey Carver
Star Rigger [3]: Blackmailed! Wrongly discredited as a space pilot, Panglor Balef is doomed to die in space, if sheer luck doesn’t bring him through. But luck has never been in Panglor’s cards. Bad enough to be coerced into a mission of murder and ...
Paper Hearts
Justina Robson
Robot Dreams [3]: What do Robots dream of?Four leading science fiction authors explore this question in four stand-alone novellas.ROBOT DREAMSAre humans to be trusted with the important things: the structure of society, governing their own lives, met...
Parasite
Mira Grant
Parasitology [1]: A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the In...
The Parasite
Neal Asher
The Parasite, a science fiction novella (40,000 words) by Neal Asher.After mining complex ices deep in the Solar System, Jack Smith is concerned about his profit margin, but is it him who doesn’t want to face quarantine or something squirming inside ...
Pasquale's Angel
Paul J. McAuley
Florence in the year 1518 is riven by scientific and sociological change caused b the wonderful devices of the Great Engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Now he is old and lives as a recluse working behind the walls of his castle. The Raphaelites, artists an...
Passage
Connie Willis
One of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unl...
Past Master
R. A. Lafferty
In a world where wealth and comfort were free to everyone, why did so many desert paradise for he slums? Why were so many people choosing lives of bone crushing work, squalor and disease?
The Past Through Tomorrow
Robert A. Heinlein
The Past Through Tomorrow contains all 21 stories, novellas, and novels of Heinlein's Future History series.The four books making up the series:The Man Who Sold the MoonThe Green Hills of EarthRevolt in 2100Methuselah's ChildrenIn addition to the con...
The Patchwork Girl
Larry Niven
Gil Hamilton [1]: Naomi Mitchison is the most beautiful woman on the moon - and the one who sent a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker of Asteroids.But investigator Gil Hamilton is sure she is not a murderer - and is determined...
Pavane
Keith Roberts
An ever-expanding subgenre of science fiction is devoted to "alternate worlds" or "alternate histories": fiction in which a crucial event goes differently than in the world we know, and history is changed.Pavane is set in a backward 20th century mold...
The Peace War
Vernor Vinge
Across Realtime [1]: The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure.The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon - the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind....
Peacekeepers
Ben Bova
When four ancient cities are destroyed in a nuclear exchange, a force known as the Peacekeepers comes into being, charged with preventing any nation from attacking another with nuclear weapons. However, their power is soon challenged by a renegade te...
Pebble in the Sky
Isaac Asimov
Galactic Empire [1]: One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he’s a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, d...
The Penultimate Truth
Philip K. Dick
THE LONGEST LIEWorld War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe.For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in ...
The People of the Wind
Poul Anderson
Like two giants the old enemies faced each other across the reaches of the galaxy - the Terran Empire and the Ythrian Domain. Terra was a Leviathan, encroaching ever further among the stars, promising peace and prosperity - but at the price of freedo...
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
New Crobuzon [1]: Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia.The air and rivers are thick with fac...
Perelandra
C. S. Lewis
Cosmic Trilogy [2]: The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom.Pitted against the most destruct...
Perfect Circle
Sean Stewart
William “Dead” Kennedy is in trouble. He’s thirty-two, in love with his ex-wife, has lost his job, and he’s been dreaming about ghost roads again. Sometimes a guy is haunted for a really good reason.Sean Stewart's much-anticipated eighth novel is a d...
The Peripheral
William Gibson
Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she's keen to avoid. Her brother Burton lives, or tries to, on money from the Veterans Association, in com...
Persepolis Rising
James S. A. Corey
Expanse [7]: In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way.Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the ageing gunship Rocinante have their hands mor...
The Persistence of Vision
John Varley
Eight Worlds [2]: Nine stories, six of them belonging to the Eight Worlds universe.Introduction by Algis Budrys.The Phantom of KansasNominated, 1979 Hugo Award; 1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Place: 4)Air RaidBasis of film and novel, Millenni...
Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas
Michael Bishop
In this heartfelt science-fiction homage, Philip K. Dick dies in 1982 in Santa Ana, California, during the fourth term of the repressive imperial presidency of Richard Milrose Nixon.Soon thereafter, stripped of his memory, Dick turns up in the office...
Phoenix Café
Gwyneth Jones
Aleutian [3]: Phoenix Café concludes the Aleutian trilogy.Now, another hundred years on from North Wind, the Aleutians prepare to leave both Earth and humanity transformed in strange and sometimes unpleasant ways by two hundred years of alien exploit...
Picnic on Paradise
Joanna Russ
Hurled through time to a strange future world where unseen forces clashed in an inexplicable war, Trans-Temporal Agent Alyx was given the job of guiding eight very important tourists to a station of safety.Alyx seemed exactly right for the job: she w...
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