Russell's ebook Library
Picoverse
Robert A. Metzger
A team of physicists in 2007 is trying to develop fusion power via a new development in plasma physics, a Sonomak, but accidentally stumbles on a method to create new, smaller-than-usual universes, which they call picoverses. These replicate everythi...
The Pirates of Ersatz
Murray Leinster
An impulsive action, on his part? Hardly.Bron Hoddan went to the ship that landed on his native planet of Zan, the ship whose heartless crew was intent on lining up all his relatives for execution... and he stowed away.Bron had planned it all long be...
Pirates of Venus
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Venus [1]: The shimmering, cloud-covered planet of Venus conceals a wondrous secret: the strikingly beautiful yet deadly world of Amtor.In Amtor, cities of immortal beings flourish in giant trees reaching thousands of feet into the sky; ferocious bea...
Pirates of the Asteroids
Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr [2]: An ever-increasing mystery lures David Starr into a perilous journey across a galaxy to destroy a maraurding band of space privateers.Twenty-five years ago these vermin had killed his parents. All his life he had waited for the mome...
Plague Birds
Jason Sanford
Glowing red lines split their faces. Shock-red hair and clothes warn people to flee their approach. They are plague birds, the powerful merging of humans and artificial intelligences who serve as judges and executioners after the collapse of civiliza...
Plague From Space
Harry Harrison
Dr. Sam Bertolli was there when the "Pericles" returned to Earth. He was the first man to reach Commander Rand as - hideously disfigured and close to death - Rand staggered off the spaceship. From that moment, Bertolli became the only line of defense...
A Plague of Demons
Keith Laumer
When John Bravais was sent on a secret mission to observe a war in North Africa he found out more than it was safe for him to know — even after he had secretly been surgically transformed so that he was as strong as a Bolo tank, and nearly as tough: ...
Planet of No Return
Harry Harrison
Brion Brandd [2]: Landing on a new planet is a danger every time, and Selm II is no exception. The specialist didn't like it. There were no cities visible from space, no broadcatss or transmissions on the airwaves - yet the wrecked war machines of an...
Planet of Treachery
E. E. Doc Smith and Stephen Goldin
Family d'Alembert [7]: For centuries, the planet Gastonia has been a planet of exile, an escape-proof prison world for the worst sorts of traitors.But now, it seems, prisoners are indeed escaping, and all evidence points to the sinister, all-knowing ...
Planet of the Damned
Harry Harrison
Brion Brandd [1]: Hugo nominated in 1962, originally published in Analog Science Fact-Science Fiction as "Sense of Obligation."Brion has just won the Twenties, a global competition to test achievements in 20 categories of human activities - but befor...
Planetfall
Emma Newman
Planetfall [1]: Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that...
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut — wildly funny, deadly serious, and...
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [2]: The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh.Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gu...
The Players of Null-A
A. E. van Vogt
Null-A [2]: In this sequel to World of Null-A, Gilbert Gosseyn must learn to use both hisbrains and function in various bodies in order to save the universe from Enrothe Red.
Podkayne of Mars
Robert A. Heinlein
Martian Ms. Podkayne Fries thinks that Earth isn't fit for habitation and has one goal - to be the first female starship captain.Paddy jumps at the chance to accompany her uncle on a trip to Earth via Venus in order to pump the brains of starship off...
Points of Departure
Pat Murphy
The stories in this groundbreaking collection - including the Nebula Award-winning 'Rachel in Love' - effortlessly cross the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, blending visionary storytelling with uncompromising realism.They reveal the ex...
Polaris
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [2]: With Polaris, Jack McDevitt returns to the universe inhabited by Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath, last seen in A Talent For War.Benedict is a seller of antiquarian artifacts mostly having to do with space travel and he's got a curr...
Polity Agent
Neal Asher
Agent Cormac [4]: From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these r...
Pollen
Jeff Noon
Vurt [2]: The sweet death of Coyote, master taxi driver, was only the first. Soon people are sneezing and dying all over Manchester.Telekinetic cop Sybil Jones knows that, like Coyote, they died happy but even a happy death can be a murder.As exotic ...
Poseidon's Wake
Alastair Reynolds
Poseidon's Children [3]: This novel is a stand-alone story which takes two extraordinary characters and follows them as they, independently, begin to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of our universe.Their missions are dangerous, and they are al...
The Positronic Man
Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
Based on an Asimov short story, "The Bicentennial Man".When NDR 113 came off the assembly lines of the United States Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation, it was no more than a positronic brain encased in a more-or-less humanoid-looking housing.But ...
The Postman
David Brin
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through...
Power Failure
Ben Bova
Jake Ross [3]: Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power.Ross has gathered a great deal, ...
Power Play
Ben Bova
Jake Ross [1]: Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester and continue on his research. However, he is being aggressively recruited to be the science advisor to Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious p...
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