Russell's ebook Library
R.U.R. & War With the Newts
Karel Čapek
Written against the background of the rise of Nazism, War With the Newts concerns the discovery in the South Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, which is enslaved and exploited by mankind. In time they rebel, laying siege to the strongholds of their form...
The Race
Nina Allan
A child is kidnapped with consequences that extend across worlds... A writer reaches into the past to discover the truth about a possible murder... Far away a young woman prepares for her mysterious future...In a future scarred by fracking and ecolog...
The Radiant Seas
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [4]: Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled in the machinations of the Skolian Empire.Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the unwil...
Radio Free Albemuth
Philip K. Dick
The praise is fantastic! Radio Free Albemuth is more than a fascinating introduction (and key) to Dick's classic Valis trilogy. It also stands on its own as a complete - and completely unforgettable - work representing Dick at his best - eerie, eleva...
Radix
A. A. Attanasio
Radix [1]: Interior Illustrations by James O'Barr.A young man's odyssey of self discovery in a world eerily alien, yet hauntingly familiar.Set thirteen centuries in the future, A. A. Attanasio meticulously creates a brilliantly realized Earth, rich i...
Raft
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [1]: Stephen Baxter’s highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence.A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as stro...
Ragamuffin
Tobias S. Buckell
Xenowealth [2]: The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically "free," mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. ...
The Ragged Astronauts
Bob Shaw
Land and Overland [1]: One planet faces a threat to its survival and so the only hope for its people is to migrate through space by balloon to a sister planet, Overland.1986 BSFA Award
Rainbow Mars
Larry Niven
According to Larry Niven, time travel is logically impossible - sheer fantasy. So when time-agent Svetz heads back from polluted future Earth in search of extinct animals, he tends to sideslip into fantastic, fictional worlds.Rainbow Mars combines bo...
Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge
Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and...
Raising Caine
Charles E. Gannon
Tales of the Terran Republic [3]: Caine Riordan, reluctant diplomatic and military intelligence operative, has just finished playing his part repulsing the Arat Kur’s and Hkh’Rkh’s joint invasion of Earth.But scant hours after the attackers surrender...
Raising the Stones
Sheri S. Tepper
Arbai [2]: When the human settlers arrived on Hobbs Land, the native intelligent specvies, the Owlbrit, were already almost extinct. Before the last one died, a few years later, the humans had learned a little of their language, their ideas and their...
Rama: The Omnibus
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
Rendezvous with Rama (1973)Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System, a perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien ar...
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Jack Womack
Ambient [5]: With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Womack has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut. Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Womack's fifth novel, is a thrilling, hy...
The Rapture of the Nerds
Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow
At the dusk of the twenty-first century, Welsh technophobe Huw is one of the billion or so hominids left on Earth, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. The rest have emigrated, uploading their consciousness to a vast cloud that fogs ...
Raven Stratagem
Yoon Ha Lee
Machineries of Empire [2]: War. Heresy. Madness. Shuos Jedao is unleashed. The long-dead general, preserved with exotic technologies as a weapon, has possessed the body of gifted young captain Kel Cheris.Now, General Kel Khiruev’s fleet, racing to th...
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall
I was unconscious. I'd stopped breathing. I don't know how long it lasted, but the engines and drivers that keep the human machine functioning at a mechanical level must have trip-switched, responding to the stillness with a general systems panic.Aut...
ReMix
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Cyber Noir [3]: LizAlec is wired for sound, speed and anything else that money can buy. But she's abducted. Her mother's a French minister, who moves Heaven and Earth to find her.Fixx fixes things - recordings, people, anything that makes money. Some...
The Reality Dysfunction
Peter F. Hamilton
Night's Dawn [1]: In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolu...
A Rebel in Time
Harry Harrison
Can history be changed?Can the South still win the War between the States?Colonel McCulloch thinks so... and his gold, his gun, and some very special blueprints stand behind him to help prove it.Sergeant Harmon is a black man who hopes not... and onl...
The Recollection: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Gareth L. Powell
Tenth anniversary re-issue of the critically acclaimed space opera by a master of British SF, with beautiful new cover art. First published in 2011."It is an evil born of war. It is the end of all things." Four hundred years ago, Ed and Alice Rico th...
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers
Wayfarers [3]: Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, as humans, artificial intelligence, aliens, and some beings yet undiscovered explore what it means to be a community.Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the ...
Recursion
Blake Crouch
Reality is broken.At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that's sweeping the world is no pathogen.It's just the first shock w...
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars [1]: The Future History of Mars - Part One1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon.2020: John Boone becomes the first man to set foot on Mars.2027: The first mass-landing arrives on Mars.It's the greatest challenge mank...
The Red Men
Matthew de Abaitua
Seizure [1]: A police helicopter hovers above Hackney. Snipers surround a house under siege. Fascinated, Nelson Millar edges forward to watch the advance of the negotiator: a robot, uncannily tall and serene, designed to empathise with the despair th...
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