Russell's ebook Library
Half Past Human
T. J. Bass
A novel of dystopian future in the tradition of Soylent Green and H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.SF Masterworks #133
Hard to Be a God
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages.Although in possession of far more advanced knowledge than the society around him, he is forbidden to interfere ...
Heavy Planet
Hal Clement
Discover MESKLIN - Gravity: 3g at the equator, 700g at the poles!Hal Clement is a Grand Master of SF, and the one most associated with the subgenre of hard SF. From his classic stories in Astounding in the 1940s through his novels of the 1950s and on...
Helliconia
Brian W Aldiss
Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters.The human-lik...
Hellstrom's Hive
Frank Herbert
First published in 1974, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish e...
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
James Tiptree Jr.
For a decade Alice Sheldon produced an extraordinary body of work under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr, until her identity was exposed in 1977.Her Smoke Rose Up Forever presents the finest of these stories inclding the story for which she is best kno...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
HHGTTG [1]: One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the week...
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Hyperion Cantos [1]: It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer.On the eve of disaster, wi...
