Russell's ebook Library
The Caltraps of Time
David I. Masson
David I. Masson began publishing sf with "Traveller's Rest" for NEW WORLDS in 1965; his fiction, including this extraordinarily intense study in the distortion of PERCEPTION, was assembled in The Caltraps of Time (1968), which single volume establish...
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The atomic Flame Deluge was over. The earth was dead.All knowledge was gone.In a hellish, barren desert, a humble monk unearth a fragile link to a twentieth century civilization. A hand-written document from the Blessed Saint Leibowitz reads: Pound p...
A Case of Conscience
James Blish
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man - a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics... until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens...
Castles Made of Sand
Gwyneth Jones
Bold as Love [2]: Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Fiorinda, charismatic leaders of the Rock 'n' Roll Reich, have beaten the cascade of disasters that followed the collapse of the former United Kingdom.Now they have to find some resolution to the impossib...
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous subst...
The Centauri Device
M. John Harrison
John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans, or at least half of him was, which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb whic...
The Child Garden
Geoff Ryman
In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, And the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism. Information, culture, l...
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime.When they f...
China Mountain Zhang
Maureen F. McHugh
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers.In its pages, we enter a postrevolution America, moving from the hyperurbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baff...
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war.David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God’s crea...
The Citadel of the Autarch
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [4]: Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not ...
Cities in Flight
James Blish
Cities in Flight is an omnibus volume of four novels, originally published between 1955 and 1962, two of which are fix-ups of pieces that first appeared in various magazines in the early '50s. Despite having been conceived more than 50 years ago, and...
City
Clifford D. Simak
The cities of the world are deserted and automation has invaded every aspect of human life.The robots make spaceships, the ants create huge buildings on the remains of old towns and the dogs take over the earth.SF Masterworks #93
The City and the Stars
Arthur C. Clarke
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then, as legend had it, The invaders came, dri...
City of Illusions
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [3]: This is the story of a journey of discovery - a story full of riddles, allegories and echoes of ancient cultures; of Utopia, a fantastic city. It is a story of the discovery of many alien cultures in a "far-future Earth", of identity and ...
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 Compass Rose
Ursula K Le Guin
From dream worlds to nightmare planets, through mazes of madness to tiny time holes in space, down Pathways of Desire to a New Atlantis, THE COMPASS ROSE points the way to the wonder-filled mind-country of a remarkable writer.The Author of the Acacia...
The Complete Roderick
John Sladek
The Complete Roderick is John Sladek's masterpiece.Roderick is a robot who learns. He begins life looking like a toy tank, thinking like a child, and knowing nothing about human ways. But as he will discover, growing up and becoming fully human is no...
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
D. G. Compton
A forgotten SF classic that exposed the pitfalls of voyeuristic entertainment decades before the reality show crazeA few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause ...
Cryptozoic!
Brian W Aldiss
The human consciousness had now widened so alarmingly, was so busy transforming everything on Earth into its own peculiar tones, that no art could exist that did not take proper cognisance of the fact. Something entirely new had to be forged.The time...
