Russell's ebook Library
Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Foundation [3]: One man understood the shifting patterns of the inhabited cosmos. This was Hari Seldon, the last great scientist of the First Empire. The mathematics of psychohistory enabled Seldon to predict the collapse of the Empire and the onset ...
Second Stage Lensman
E. E. Doc Smith
Lensman [5]: Galactic Undercover AgentKim Kinnison, Number One man of his time, had faced challenges before, but rarely as daunting as this. To him fell the perilous task of infiltrating the inner circle of Boskone, stronghold of galactic civilisatio...
Secret Harmonies
Paul J. McAuley
Four Hundred Billion Stars [2]: The planet Elysium is long settled, but troubles lay underneath the seeming paradise. Citizens of the Port of Plenty have benefitted from new technology, but settlers across the planet are left to fend for themselves.
The Secret of Life
Paul J. McAuley
There is life on Mars. But could it end life on Earth? It’s 2025 and the Earth is damaged. Irreparably.The quest for scientific solutions is hampered by commercial greed, political infighting and a mass fear that whatever we do, we can only make thin...
Seeker
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [3]: Near the end of the twenty-seventh century, when the interstellar age was just dawning, two ships set out from Earth to escape the fascist theocracy that had taken over North America. One was the Bremerhaven, the other the Seeker. ...
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
Collected here are twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working at the peak of his powers.Beyond Lies the WubRoogPaycheckSecond VarietyImposterThe King of the ElvesAdjustm...
Selling Out
Justina Robson
Quantum Gravity [2]: Book two of the Quantum Gravity series sees Lila Black drawn into the intoxicatingly dangerous demon realm. Capricious, in love with beauty, demons are best left to themselves. This is not easy when they can't resist tampering wi...
Semiosis
Sue Burke
Semiosis Duology [1]: Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Semiosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke.Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they’ll have to survive on the one t...
Serpent's Reach
C. J. Cherryh
The constellation of Hydri, also called the Serpent, became an undesirable destination during the era of humanity's most prolific interstellar colonization. For Hydri was under strict quarantine because it harbored an intelligent and dangerous alien ...
Seven Surrenders
Ada Palmer
Terra Ignota [2]: In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war... a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.For known only to ...
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
What would happen if the world were ending?When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere....
Shadow Captain
Alastair Reynolds
Revenger [2]: The gripping sequel to the Locus award winning science fiction adventure, Revenger, tells a story of obsession and betrayal as two sisters hunt for the greatest treasure in the universe.Adrana and Fura Ness have finally been reunited, b...
Shadow Puppets
Orson Scott Card
Shadow Saga [3]: In Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of Shadow of the Hegemon, following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the ali...
Shadow of the Giant
Orson Scott Card
Shadow Saga [4]: Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptan...
Shadow of the Hegemon
Orson Scott Card
Shadow Saga [2]: Orson Scott Card keeps returning to his first published story "Ender's Game" (1977). He expanded it into the acclaimed 1985 novel Ender's Game, winning Hugo and Nebula awards and spawning several sequels. More recently, Ender's Shado...
Shadow of the Scorpion
Neal Asher
Polity [3]: Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn't re...
Shadows in Flight
Orson Scott Card
Shadow Saga [5]: Ender’s Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children - the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a sh...
Shadrach in the Furnace
Robert Silverberg
The year is 2012. The world lies ravaged by biological warfare, its population decimated by a ferocious genetically-transmitted disease known as the organ rot. And presiding over the ruins is a ninety-three-year-old tyrant, preserved in a state of yo...
The Shape of Things to Come
H. G. Wells
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'.Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the...
Shards of Earth
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Final Architecture [1]: From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time* , winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Shards of Earth is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure in Adrian Tchaikovsky' Final ...
Shards of Honor
Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia Naismith [1]: Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites...She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecti...
The Sheep Look Up
John Brunner
In THE SHEEP LOOK UP, Brunner returns to a style similar to that of the manically inventive STAND ON ZANZIBAR, and delivers another fast-paced, kaleidoscopically comprehensive view of a near future rife with looming ecological dangers and possibly ab...
The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
G. C. Edmondson
Ensign Joe Rate, captain of the experimental Navy yawl Alice, figured that everything that could happen to him in one day had already happened. First, after a freak electrical storm at sea the Alice had somehow been thrown a thousand years back in ti...
Ship of Fools
Richard Paul Russo
Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy for hundreds of years, desperately searching for other signs of life.Now an unidentified transmission lures them toward a nearby planet-and into the dark...
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