Russell's ebook Library
2312
Kim Stanley Robinson
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between.But in this...
All Clear
Connie Willis
Oxford Time Travel [2]: Traveling back in time, from Oxford circa 2060 into the thick of World War II, was a routine excursion for three British historians eager to study firsthand the heroism and horrors of the Dunkirk evacuation and the London Blit...
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world—and the beginning of our futureChildhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circum...
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow t...
Among Others
Jo Walton
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a sp...
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Imperial Radch [1]: A stunning space opera that asks what it means to be human in a universe guided by artificial intelligence.On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she se...
Annihilation
Jeff Vandermeer
Southern Reach [1]: Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition en...
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
In 1967, Samuel R. Delany was young, gay, black and possibly the hippest person on the planet. He was to write more perfect books than Babel-17, but it is perhaps the most delightful, clever and sensual of his works. Its set pieces - an extended wand...
Blackout
Connie Willis
Oxford Time Travel [1]: In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape histo...
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
Lady Astronaut [1]: A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth's efforts...
Camouflage
Joe Haldeman
An unidentified artifact, found seven miles below the surface of the sea, stumps the scientists examining it. But it calls out to the two immortal creatures who have wandered the Earth for centuries. Two creatures who have never crossed paths - until...
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [2]: Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in my...
The Complete Chalion
Lois McMaster Bujold
Omnibus of all three Chalion novels.The Curse of Chalion (2001)Seeking a position in the royal household, Cazaril is offered the post of secretary to the Royesse Iselle, the sister to the heir to Chalion's throne, but his new assignment brings him fa...
Darwin's Radio
Greg Bear
Darwin [1]: A terrifying disease, or the next step in human evolution? Three scientists must battle to find the truth in this heart-stopping technothriller.Mitch Rafelson makes a major discovery high in the Alps - the preserved bodies of a Neandertha...
The Dispossessed
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [5]: The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist wor...
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors i...
Dreamsnake
Vonda N. McIntyre
McIntyre's tender and compassionate adventure story - a Hugo and Nebula Award winner and a New York Times bestseller.In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the sick and injured with her companion,...
Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune [1]: Dune is epic space opera, a saga of dynastic rivalry rooted in history and ecology, the story of the planet Arrakis 10 000 years from now, and of the conflicts over possession of Melange, a psycho-mutagenic "spice" vital to maintaining the ...
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany
In an incredible far future, the known laws of Time and Space no longer apply to the world – and the seed of Man has mutated.Lobey is a mutant, different because he can hear the music in people’s minds. And when he encounters the beautiful dead-mute,...
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin [1]: In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers.A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parent...
Falling Free
Lois McMaster Bujold
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what’s wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it.But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat....
The Falling Woman
Pat Murphy
Elizabeth Waters, an archeologist who abandoned her husband and daughter years ago to pursue her career, can see the shadows of the past. It's a gift she keeps secret from her colleagues and students, one that often leads her to incredible archeologi...
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...
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