Russell's ebook Library
The Weathermakers
Ben Bova
After conquering everything else, the last frontier was... controlling Mother Nature!THE WEATHERMAKERS is a novel about climate change... literally.
The Weight of Memories
Cixin Liu
From the author of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and the forthcoming Death's End comes a story about unborn memories.
The Wellstone
Wil McCarthy
Queendom of Sol [2]: For the children of immortal parents, growing up can be hard to do. A prince will forever be a prince - leaving no chance for Bascal Edward de Towaji Lutui to inherit his parents’ throne. So what is an angry young blue blood to d...
Wergen: The Alien Love War
Mercurio D Rivera
The Wergens: a highly sophisticated alien race biochemically infatuated with humans. They crave us, they need us, while we need their technology.Humanity does what it always does. We exploit them. Until, that is, the Wergens find a way to circumvent ...
What Entropy Means to Me
George Alec Effinger
Doctor, watch out!As Dore stood by, he saw the Doctor backing slowly into the corner where he would meet his fate. Initially defending himself with a torch, the Doctor searched frantically for a new method of defense. The crimson mass is lunging forw...
What You Make It
Michael Marshall Smith
Short story collection.More TomorrowEverybody GoesAn idyllic childhood day from a long, hot summer. The kind you want to last for ever. All good things must come to an end, mustn't they?Hell Hath Enlarged HerselfA Place to StayLaterThe Man Who Drew C...
Wheelworld
Harry Harrison
To the Stars [2]: An unforgiving planet where the sun is about to rise and will not set for another four years; where an ancient peasant hierarchy still rules a society equiped with the highest technology; where the people are as dependent on visitin...
When Gravity Fails
George Alec Effinger
Marid Audran [1]: When Gravity Fails, the first Marid novel, is set in a high-tech near-future featuring a divided USA and USSR, a world with mind-or mood-altering drugs for any purpose; brains enhanced by electronic hardware, with plug-in memory add...
When HARLIE Was One
David Gerrold
HARLIE is the first self-aware intelligence engine. But instead of answers, he has questions — too many questions, and most of his questions have no answers at all.First published in 1972, When HARLIE Was One was immediately hailed as a groundbreakin...
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelm
The Sumner family can read the signs: the droughts and floods, the blighted crops, the shortages, the rampant diseases and plagues, and, above all, the increasing sterility all point to one thing.Their isolated farm in the Appalachian Mountains gives...
Whipping Star
Frank Herbert
ConSentiency [1]: In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other species: Gowachin, Laclac, Wreaves, Pan Spechi, Taprisiots, and Caleban, and has helped to form the ConSentiency to govern among the species. After suffering under a ...
White Dragon
Anne McCaffrey
Dragonriders of Pern [3]: Jaxom, a rebellious young aristocrat, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall.
White Mars
Brian W Aldiss and Roger Penrose
A 21st-Century UtopiaTwo of England's most distinguished thinkers have created a bold and startling vision of a new society escaping the ashes of the old.In the not-so-distant future, Man will have begun to colonize our planetary neighbour, Mars. Ent...
The White Plague
Frank Herbert
John Roe O'Neill is a molecular biologist who has the knowledge, and now the motivation, to devise and disseminate a genetically carried plague - a plague to which, like those that scourged mankind centuries ago, there is no antidote, but one that ze...
White Queen
Gwyneth Jones
Aleutian [1]: Johnny Guglioli used to be a journalist, but his QV virus has rendered him an outcast. In exile from his native America, he encounters an enigmatic young woman. He is convinced she is an alien, and that she is part of a small force sent...
Who?
Algis Budrys
Until K-eighty-eighty blew him into little pieces Martino had been one of the West's greatest physicists. The Russians spent four months putting him together again and when they finally handed him back to the Americans he was as good as new - apart f...
The Whole Man
John Brunner
In A WHOLE MAN, a baby boy is born in a hospital surrounded by the chaos of battle and civil unrest. The birth is unremarkable and little noted but the child, Gerald Howson, turns out to be very special.He is afflicted with infirmities and bodily fla...
Whores of Babylon
Ian Watson
Alex Winter and Deborah Tate arrive by hovercraft at the city of Babylon, lying on the river Euphrates in the Arizona desert. He is a sociology drop-out from the University of Oregon at Eugene who wants to become a Babylonian. She has a much stranger...
The Wild Shore
Kim Stanley Robinson
Three Californias [1]: 2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive.But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that migh...
The Wild
David Zindell
Neverness Cycle [2]: The awe-inspiring sequel to The Broken God Danlo the Wild has started his quest into the stars, beyond the limits of the known universe to search for three things: his father, half god, half hero, Mallory Ringess; the lost city o...
The Will to Battle
Ada Palmer
Terra Ignota [3]: The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location.The ...
The Wind From Nowhere
J. G. Ballard
The wind came from nowhere... a super hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organized life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels an...
A Window Into Time: A Novella
Peter F. Hamilton
Teenager Julian has perfect recall, which means he has trouble finding his place in the world. But he really does know his own mind. So when he starts experiencing someone else's memories, which are also tantalizing glimpses of the future, Julian rea...
The Winds of Altair
Ben Bova
Earth is an old planet, and her teeming masses are running out of resources... and time. It is up to men such as Jeff Holman to discover a haven for Earth’s millions. Altair VI is one such planet, and Holman is determined to transform this world into...
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, h...
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