Russell's ebook Library
R.U.R. & War With the Newts
Karel Čapek
Written against the background of the rise of Nazism, War With the Newts concerns the discovery in the South Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, which is enslaved and exploited by mankind. In time they rebel, laying siege to the strongholds of their form...
Raft
Stephen Baxter
Xeelee [1]: Stephen Baxter’s highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence.A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as stro...
Raising the Stones
Sheri S. Tepper
Arbai [2]: When the human settlers arrived on Hobbs Land, the native intelligent specvies, the Owlbrit, were already almost extinct. Before the last one died, a few years later, the humans had learned a little of their language, their ideas and their...
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...
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Jack Womack
Ambient [5]: With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Womack has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut. Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Womack's fifth novel, is a thrilling, hy...
The Rediscovery of Man
Cordwainer Smith
Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer.An insterstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtu...
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams
HHGTTG [2]: Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure ...
The Revelation Space Collection
Alastair Reynolds
All seven books set in the REVELATION SPACE universe.Revelation Space (2000)Dr Dan Sylveste, an archaeologist who has for years been fascinated with the long-dead alien race the Amarantin, is about to discover something that could change the course o...
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity r...
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 ...
River of Gods
Ian McDonald
As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business — a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj — the waif, the mind-reader, th...
Roadside Picnic
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the pla...
Rocannon's World
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [2]: A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern - dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars.Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he s...
Rogue Moon
Algis Budrys
Before 1969, every science fiction writer wrote his or her own version of the first Moon landing. Few carry the horror of Budrys' unsettling story.During all recorded history, the Moon has hovered above our heads, a timeless symbol for lovers' ecstas...
