Russell's ebook Library
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 Healer's War
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Healer's War, a classic novel of the Vietnam War, enriched with a magical, mystical twist.The Minneapolis Star Tribune called it "A brutal and beautiful book."Scarborough herself was a nurse in Vietnam during the war and she draws on her own pers...
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...
Man Plus
Frederik Pohl
Man Plus [1]: Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster - a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mar...
The Moon and the Sun
Vonda N. McIntyre
In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his domain, wealth and beauty take all; frivolity begets cruelty; science and alchemy collide. From the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versai...
Moving Mars
Greg Bear
Queen of Angels [3]: Moving Mars is a story of human courage and love set within the greater saga of a planetary liberation movement. Mars is a colonial world, governed by corporate interests on Earth. The citizens of Mars are hardworking, but held...
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...
No Enemy But Time
Michael Bishop
Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the underst...
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Parable [2]: Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God Is Change".But in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns...
Powers
Ursula K Le Guin
Chronicles of the Western Shore [3]: The final part in the story that started with GIFTS, and the tale of Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant, two children with extraordinary powers.They play a part in VOICES too, the sequel to GIFTS...
The Quantum Rose
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [6]: Kamoj Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous province.But before Argali an...
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...
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars [1]: The Future History of Mars - Part One1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon.2020: John Boone becomes the first man to set foot on Mars.2027: The first mass-landing arrives on Mars.It's the greatest challenge mank...
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 ...
Rite of Passage
Alexei Panshin
After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. On one of the Ships lives Mia Havero. Belligerent s...
Seeker
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [3]: Near the end of the twenty-seventh century, when the interstellar age was just dawning, two ships set out from Earth to escape the fascist theocracy that had taken over North America. One was the Bremerhaven, the other the Seeker. ...
Slow River
Nicola Griffith
Nicola Griffith chronicles the journey of Lore van de Oest, who, shortly before her eighteenth birthday, is kidnapped, abused and left for dead on the streets of an unnamed European city. There she meets Spanner, a woman who both protects and manipul...
A Song for a New Day
Sarah Pinsker
After a global pandemic makes public gatherings illegal and concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music - and for one chance at human connection.In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public ...
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...
The Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
Lou is different to 'normal' people. He interacts with the world in a way they do not understand. He might not see the things they see, however, but he also sees many things they do not. Lou is autistic. One of his skills is an ability to find patter...
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...
Stations of the Tide
Michael Swanwick
Genius renegade scientist and bush wizard, Gregorian, has come to the planet Miranda with magic and forbidden technology, planning to remake the planet in his own evil image. Unless he can be stopped, whatever remains on Miranda will spiral towards d...
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