Russell's ebook Library
Vacuum Diagrams
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [5]: Baxter’s future history, known as the Xeelee sequence, is an exemplar of the form: it comprises his first four novels, Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux and Ring, and these marvellous linked stories.The stories are like pearls on the timeline...
Vagabonds
Hao Jingfang
A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on...
Valis
Philip K. Dick
Valis [1]: Only Philip K Dick could produce a novel as comically disturbing as Valis (1981), grappling with troubled, off-sane episodes of his own life and triumphantly resolving them through SF.Early in 1974 Dick felt a "pink beam" flashing through ...
Vanguard from Alpha
Brian W Aldiss
The spy team from Earth knew they were looking for trouble when they secretly landed in Luna Area 101 - dangerous Rosk territory. But the fearless trio got more than they bargained for at the hands of these hostile guests of Earth.Tyne and Murray esc...
The Vanished Birds
Simon Jimenez
A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever.I expected many things from this trip. I did not expect a family. A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A m...
Variable Star
Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson
A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction's greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century.When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt ...
Venomous Lumpsucker
Ned Beauman
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalismThe near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perha...
Venus
Ben Bova
Grand Tour [17]: The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered...
Venus Plus X
Theodore Sturgeon
Nothing about Charlie Johns's life is particularly unusual until the day he wakes up in the future. Suddenly surrounded by impossible architecture and technology, Charlie finds himself warmly welcomed by the citizens of Ledom, a fantastic, futuristic...
Villainy Victorious
L. Ron Hubbard
Mission Earth [9]: Earth is rising in the House of Voltar...And there'll be hell to pay!That's right. The invasion is on... and it's coming soon to a galaxy near you. The action couldn't be hotter, and the plot couldn't be more diabolical. Earth is c...
Virtual Light
William Gibson
Bridge [1]: San Francisco, the nearish future; ex-cop Berry Rydell's lost one job he didn't much like and landed another he likes even less. Some sunglasses - actually high-end kit involving VR and super-sensitive data - got stolen from a courier and...
The Visitors
Clifford D. Simak
What looked like a big black box - perhaps fifty feet high, two hundred long - had settled squarely on Jerry Conklin's car. The townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota, were the first to see it - and one of them was the first and only human to shoot at i...
The Vital Abyss
James S. A. Corey
Expanse [5.50]: A novella set in the world of The Expanse.Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity.The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know ar...
Voice of the Whirlwind
Walter Jon Williams
Hardwired [2]: Steward is a Beta — a clone. In his memories, he’s an elite commando for an orbital policorp — but because his Alpha never did a brain-scan update, Steward’s memories are fifteen years out of date... and in those fifteen years, every...
The Voices of Heaven
Frederik Pohl
Barry di Hoa, antimatter engineer assigned to the Moon, was all set to propose marriage to his girlfriend when he was suddenly shanghaied to Paya, a planet light-years away. Worse, the planet was seismically unstable. Even worse, the human colonists ...
The Void Captain's Tale
Norman Spinrad
Second Starfaring Age [1]: In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the...
The Vor Game
Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles Vorkosigan [2]: When his boyhood chum, Gregor, the Imperial Emperor, goes AWOL, chance places the exiled ensign Miles Vorkosigan in a position to extricate Gregor, the Dendarii Mercenaries, and himself from a very sticky and potentially deadly ...
Vortex
Robert Charles Wilson
Spin [3]: Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called “the Hypotheticals.” In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets co...
Voyage
Stephen Baxter
NASA Trilogy [1]: The space mission of a lifetimeAn epic saga of America's might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s.Imaginatively created fr...
Voyage of Vengeance
L. Ron Hubbard
Mission Earth [7]: The end is near!The Voltarian terrorists have won!Earth is history!But don't believe everything you read. Or hear. Or see. Because the road to victory is paved with bad intentions — and lies, betrayal and deception are all in play....
The Voyage of the Sable Keech
Neal Asher
Spatterjay [2]: Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater?Tracing the mans...
Voyagers
Ben Bova
Voyagers [1]: Keith Stoner, ex-astronaut turned physicist, knows the signal from space that his research station is receiving is not random.Whatever it is, it’s real. And it’s headed straight for Earth. He’ll do anything to be the first man to go out...
Voyagers II - The Alien Within
Ben Bova
Voyagers [2]: When Keith Stoner awoke, he found himself in a world changed almost beyond recognition. Eighteen years before, Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship. The Soviets had to pull out, but...
Voyagers III - Star Brothers
Ben Bova
Voyagers [3]: Keith Stoner, the courageous astronaut featured in the first two books, draws upon his superhuman powers to thwart the endeavours of Hsen, an evil businessman, intent on wrecking world peace.
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