Russell's ebook Library
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...
Behold the Man
Michael Moorcock
In the title story readers are introduced to Karl Glogauer, time traveller and messiah. In "Breakfast in the Ruins", Karl is the central character once again, in the setting of Derry and Toms's roof garden. "Constant Fire", set between the other stor...
The Best of Connie Willis
Connie Willis
Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. He...
The Best of Greg Egan
Greg Egan
Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificia...
The Best of R. A. Lafferty
R. A. Lafferty
Welcome to this compilation of R. A. Lafferty's finest short stories. You've never read anything like them, and you never will again.Nine Hundred GrandmothersNarrow ValleyIn Our BlockLand of the Great HorsesGroaning Hinges of the WorldContinu...
Blood Music
Greg Bear
Vergil Ulam's breakthrough in genetic engineering is considered too dangerous for further research. Rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the wor...
Bold as Love
Gwyneth Jones
Bold as Love [1]: Three extraordinary people in some most extraordinary times: It's Dissolution Summer and as the United Kingdom prepares to break up into separate nations, the Counterculturals have gathered for a festival where everything's allowed....
The Book of Skulls
Robert Silverberg
Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite. To their surprise, they discover that...
Bring the Jubilee
Ward Moore
Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War. Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to tha...
