Russell's ebook Library
Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge
Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and...
Rama: The Omnibus
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
Rendezvous with Rama (1973)Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System, a perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien ar...
Redshirts
John Scalzi
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship's Xenobiology laborat...
Ringworld
Larry Niven
Ringworld [1]: A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million ...
Slan
A. E. van Vogt
From its first publication as a serial in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1940, Slan was acclaimed by readers as one of, if not THE, novel of Golden Age science fiction.Telling the story of Jommy Cross, a young slan, and his quest to discover ...
The Snow Queen
Joan D. Vinge
Snow Queen [1]: The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers.But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives...
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin [2]: In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but agai...
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson
Spin [1]: One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, J...
Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner
There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes... all the hys...
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Service on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper.In boot camp he will learn how to become a soldier, but when he graduates and war comes (...
Startide Rising
David Brin
Uplift [2]: David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.Brin's tales are set in a fu...
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
Broken Earth [3]: The shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic bestselling trilogy.The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.Essun has inherited the power of Alabaste...
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars.Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has n...
This Immortal
Roger Zelazny
Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Commissioner, he's been given a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour of the shattered remains of Earth is not something he r...
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Three-Body [1]: The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple award winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Rev...
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis
A science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-tra...
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Philip José Farmer
Riverworld [1]: All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected - healthy, young, and naked as newborns - on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning...
The Uplift War
David Brin
Uplift [3]: As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth.The various uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction. At stake i...
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
A dark enchantment blights the land. Agnieszka loves her village, set deep in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood, and none returns unchanged. The villagers depend on an age...
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 ...
The Wanderer
Fritz Leiber
All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer — a huge, garishly colored artificial world — emerged. Only a few scientists even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly and silently, it arrived, dwarfing and threatening the Moon ...
Way Station
Clifford D. Simak
Enoch Wallace first appears as a mystery man: an impossibly young-looking Civil War veteran, 124 years old and still living in his parents' remote Winconsin farmhouse. Nowadays this building has a glittering, Tardis-like interior, ever since Wallace ...
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...
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...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska – and not Israel – had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Alyeska', Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka,...
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