Russell's ebook Library
Ragged Alice
Gareth L. Powell
Orphaned at an early age, DCI Holly Craig grew up in the small Welsh coastal town of Pontyrhudd. As soon as she was old enough, she ran away to London and joined the police. Now, fifteen years later, she’s back in her old hometown to investigate what...
Ragtime
E. L. Doctorow
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time.Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of th...
Railsea
China Miéville
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death and the other’s glory. But no...
Rainbow Bridge
Gwyneth Jones
Bold as Love [5]: It's the final curtain call for Fiorinda, the flame-haired rock princess, Guinevere to Ax Preston's King Arthur and Sage Pender's Sir Lancelot. Together, the Triumvirate have fought to save their Britain, and America - indeed, the w...
Raising Steam
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [37]: Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule. He has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements — earth, air, fire, and water —...
Rapture
Kameron Hurley
Bel Dame Apocrypha [3]: After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in action in service to the bel dames, a sisterhood of elite government assassins tasked with eliminating deserters and traitors. The end of a centuries-long holy war between h...
Rats and Gargoyles
Mary Gentle
Rat Lords [1]: It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the "heart of the world," where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence.This energizes a c...
The Raven Tower
Ann Leckie
Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this masterful first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C....
Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [11]: Death is missing - presumed... er... gone.Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe - 'You Don't Have to ...
Red Prophet
Orson Scott Card
Alvin Maker [2]: "Red Prophet" is but a section of a vast American fantasy epic. It is vividly written, and the principal actors - Alvin, Ta-Kumsaw, the Prophet, and Alvin's Gandalfesque mentor Taleswapper - are all complete and memorable characters....
Replay
Ken Grimwood
In this intriguing fantasy adventure, Jeff Winston, a failing 43-year-old radio journalist, dies and wakes up in his 18-year-old body in 1963 with his memories of the next 25 years intact. He views the future from the perspective of naive 1963: "null...
Retribution Falls
Chris Wooding
Ketty Jay [1]: Sky piracy is a bit out of Darian Frey’s league. Fate has not been kind to the captain of the airship Ketty Jay — or his motley crew. They are all running from something. Crake is a daemonist in hiding, traveling with an armored golem ...
The Return of the Discontinued Man
Mark Hodder
Burton and Swinburne [5]: Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton and poet Algernon Swinburne return in a new series of wildly imaginative steampunk adventures.SPRING HEELED JACK IS JUMPING BACK!It's 9 p.m. on February 15, 1860, and Charles Babbage, the ...
The Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings [3]: Concluding the story of The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien’s epic master piece.Impossible to describe in a few words, JRR Tolkien’s great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a ...
Return to Eden
Harry Harrison
Eden [3]: In West of Eden and Winter in Eden, master novelist Harry Harrison broke new ground with his most ambitious project ever. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendant...
The Revolution Business
Charles Stross
Merchant Princes [5]: Things are going badly for the Clan in this SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up insid...
The Riddle-Master of Hed
Patricia A. McKillip
Quest of the Riddle-Master [1]: In seeking the answer to the riddle of the three stars on his forehead and the three stars on the enchanted harp and sword, Morgon, Prince of Hed, goes ultimately to the High One, himself.
The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats
Mark Hodder
Burton and Swinburne [6]: Sir Richard Francis Burton's expedition has returned from the future, bringing with it knowledge of technologies that must remain secret if history is to proceed as it should. However, when one of his colleagues turns rogue,...
A River Called Time
Courttia Newland
The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning.Years after the Ark was cut off from the world, a chance of survival within its confines is granted to a select few who ca...
River's Edge
James P. Blaylock
Langdon St. Ives [7]: The body of a girl washes up on a mud bank along the edge of the River Medway amid a litter of poisoned fish and sea birds, casting an accusing shadow upon the deadly secrets of the Majestic Paper Mill and its wealthy owners.
Rocannon's World
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [2]: A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern - dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars.Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he s...
