Russell's ebook Library
Sarah Canary
Karen Joy Fowler
Set in the Old West, this is the strange, magical tale of Sarah Canary and the ragtag band of misfits and lovers she trails in her wake.When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ...
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug ab...
The Separation
Christopher Priest
Researching the war between Britain and Nazi Germany, which lasted from May 1940 to May 1941, historian Stuart Gratton becomes intrigued by the enigma of J.L. Sawyer, an obscure figure who played a key part in bringing the conflict to its conclusion....
The Shadow of Torturer
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [1]: 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 Shape of Things to Come
H. G. Wells
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'.Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the...
The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner
In a world drowning in data, a fugitive tries to outrun the forces that want to reprogram him.He Was The Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes... but technically he didn't exist. He was a f...
The Simulacra
Philip K. Dick
Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, The Simulacra is the story of an America where the whole government is a fraud and the President is an android.Against this backdrop Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist, is struggling to pract...
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's second SF novel was published way back in 1959 but remains horribly timeless. For all the book's wild inventiveness, it's one of the most blackly nihilistic comedies ever published in the genre.The tragicomic godgame is presided over ...
Sirius
Olaf Stapledon
Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being.Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. ...
Slow River
Nicola Griffith
Nicola Griffith chronicles the journey of Lore van de Oest, who, shortly before her eighteenth birthday, is kidnapped, abused and left for dead on the streets of an unnamed European city. There she meets Spanner, a woman who both protects and manipul...
The Snail on the Slope
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
ENTER THE ADMINISTRATIONPeretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below. Except no one ever seems to go there, and his attempts only trap him further within the workings of...
The Space Merchants
Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
Space Merchants [1]: It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtena...
Stand on Zanzibar
John Brunner
There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes... all the hys...
Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon
One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun.Even Stapledon's other great work, LAST AND FIRST MEN, ...
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class.EDUCATION: noneSKILLS: noneMERITS: noneRECOMMENDATIONS: none.That's the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman. But right now he is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship, and whe...
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
Juan Rico signed up with the Federal Service on a lark, but despite the hardships and rigorous training, he finds himself determined to make it as a cap trooper.In boot camp he will learn how to become a soldier, but when he graduates and war comes (...
Swastika Night
Katharine Burdekin
Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, this novel projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. They are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered auto...
The Sword of the Lictor
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [3]: Banished for the sin of mercy, Severian, one of the ancient guild of Torturers, flees from exile. In a mountain wilderness he meets the Alzabo, in whom those eaten seem to live on, adopts as son only to lose him in batt...
Synners
Pat Cadigan
In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim.A constant stream of new technology spawns crime before it hits the streets; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with "reality" ...
