Russell's ebook Library
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Qeng Ho [2]: Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone - but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unpredictable, godlike "Powers". When human meddling...
The Forever Machine
Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
The government ordered it built: a thinking machine that could foresee catastrophe and eliminate human error. Reasearch trainee Joe Carter sees another possibility - create a machine that will make ordinary people telepathic - and immortal.1955 Hugo ...
Forever Peace
Joe Haldeman
Forever War [2]: In the year 2043, the Ngumi War rages. Limited nuclear strikes have been used on Atlanta and two enemy cities, but the war goes on, fought by 'soldierboys' - indestructible war machines operated by remote control by soldiers hundreds...
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
Forever War [1]: "Today we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."Future soldier William Mandella's service in the interstellar "Forever War" chillingly echoes Vietnam, where Joe Haldeman was severely wounded and won the Purple Heart.A...
Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
Foundation [4]: At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire without k...
The Fountains of Paradise
Arthur C. Clarke
In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind of space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an equatori...
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
Heechee [1]: Wealth... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered.Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They ar...
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
For 14 years of a career stretching from 1939 to his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov wrote little SF and instead produced popular non-fiction in enormous quantities. The Gods Themselves (1972) was his "comeback" SF novel, welcomed by both Hugo and Nebula...
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing his entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard?Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about ...
Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars [2]: Mars can be plundered – for the benefit of a ravaged Earth. It can be terraformed to suit Man’s needs – frozen lakes form, lichen grows, the atmosphere slowly becomes breathable. But most importantly, Mars can be owned. On Earth, countries ...
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter [4]: The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divi...
Hominids
Robert J. Sawyer
Neanderthal Parallax [1]: Hominids is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but it's also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that will examine two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-en...
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Hyperion Cantos [1]: It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer.On the eve of disaster, wi...
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Gilbert Norrell is determined to single-handedly rehabilitate his sanitised and patriotic version of English magic, which has suffered a post-Enlightenment neglect after a richly dark history. He ruthlessly secures his place as England’s only magicia...
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [4]: Genly Ai is a diplomat of sorts, sent to observe the inhabitants of the snowbound planet of Winter. But the isolated, androgynous people are suspicious of this strange, single-gendered visitor. Tucked away in a remote corner of the univer...
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
In the 1960s, Roger Zelazny dazzled the SF world with what seemed to be inexhaustible talent and inventiveness. Lord of Light, his third novel and the seventh in Millennium's SF Masterworks series, is his finest book: a science fantasy in which the i...
Lost Dorsai
Gordon R. Dickson
Childe Cycle [6]: There are many legends on the planet of the Dorsai, the breeding ground for heroes. Here are two of them.Lost Dorsai1981 Novella Hugo Award WinnerWarrior
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War...Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been: the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, t...
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Teixcalaan [1]: Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will a...
Mirror Dance
Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles Vorkosigan [7]: Injured in his mother's womb, Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, born a dwarf with brittle bones, faces off against his brother, a cloned stranger created to murder Miles and replace him.1995 Hugo Award1995 Locus Award
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of three Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth....
The Mule
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov's Foundation series appeared in Astounding Science Fiction intermittently from 1942 through 1950, and for long years has been a favorite of fans. It describes a multi-century vision, worked out with Astounding's editor John W. Campbell, ...
Network Effect
Martha Wells
Murderbot Diaries [5]: You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and bi...
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Sprawl [1]: The Matrix: a world within a world, a graphic representation of the databanks of every computer in the human system; a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate users in the Sprawl alone. And by Case, computer c...
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
The extraordinary story of a boy called Wart ignored by everyone except his tutor, Merlin who goes on to become King Arthur.T.H. White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic.The Once and Future King, contains all five boo...
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