Russell's ebook Library
The Dancers at the End of Time
Michael Moorcock
Enter a decaying far, far future society, a time when anything and everything is possible, where words like "conscience" and "morality" are meaningless, and where heartfelt love blossoms mysteriously between Mrs Amelia Underwood, an unwilling time tr...
Dangerous Visions
Harlan Ellison
33 original stories, edited by Harlan Ellison, including 7 Hugo and Nebula Award winners and 13 nominees.Volume 1Evensong, Lester del ReyFlies, Robert SilverbergThe Day After The Martians Came, Frederik PohlRiders of the Purple Wage or The Great Gava...
Dark Benediction
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Walter M. Miller Jr is best remembered as the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, universally recognized as one of the greatest novels of modern SF.But as well as writing that deeply felt and eloquent book, he produced many shorter works of fiction o...
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
Triffids are odd, interesting little plants that grow in everyone's garden. Triffids are no more than mere curiosities until an event occurs that alters human life: what seems to be a spectacular meteor shower, turns into a bizarre, green inferno tha...
The Deep
John Crowley
For many generations the Just have been at war with the Protectors. In their strange world, supported by a huge pillar poised in the vast and mysterious Deep, ritual bloodshed and sorcery have obsessed the inhabitants since the beginning of time.Half...
A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge
Qeng Ho [1]: This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep - but 30,000 years earlier.The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's...
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in 70 years: murder.That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in ...
Desolation Road
Ian McDonald
Desolation Road [1]: It all began thirty years ago on Mars, with a greenperson. But by the time it all finished, the town of Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Education...
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany
Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there...The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a young ma...
The Difference Engine
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
A brilliantly inventive alternate history by the two biggest names in Cyberpunk, Gibson and Sterling, about a 19th century computer revolution arising from the invention of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine - a forerunner of today's computer based ...
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...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction a...
The Doomed City
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel that was their own favorite, and that readers worldw...
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...
The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein
Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine.Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy par...
Double Star
Robert A. Heinlein
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was - as usual - in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.Suddenly ...
Downward to Earth
Robert Silverberg
An intelligent New Wave classic from the mid-1970s which blends mysticism, world-building and literary references in an inventive mix...This is perhaps SF's finest tribute to Joseph Conrad, both in its keen moral sense and its portrayal of a vividly ...
Dr Bloodmoney
Philip K. Dick
Seven years after the day of the bombs, Point Reyes was luckier than most places. Its people were reasonably normal - except for the girl with her twin brother growing inside her, and talking to her.Their barter economy was working. Their resident ge...
Dreaming in Smoke
Tricia Sullivan
Kalypso Deed is a shotgun, riding the interface between the AI Ganesh and human scientists who solve problems through cyber-assisted Dreams. But she's young and a little careless; she'd rather mix drinks and play jazz. Azamat Marcsson is a colourless...
The Drowned World
J. G. Ballard
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of Crash and Cocaine Nights.Set in the near future, the ice caps have melted and the planet basks in an unendurable heat. L...
Drowning Towers
George Turner
Francis Conway is Swill - one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state.Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blind...
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 ...
Dying Inside
Robert Silverberg
Born with the extraordinary power to look deep within the human heart, David Selig recklessly misuses his gift in the pursuit of pleasure, until his power begins to die and he must come to terms with what it means to be truly human.This is a fascinat...
Dying of the Light
George R. R. Martin
In this unforgettable space opera, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin presents a chilling vision of eternal night — a volatile world where cultures clash, codes of honor do not exist, and the hunter and the hunted are often inte...
