Russell's ebook Library
Ack-Ack Macaque
Gareth L. Powell
Ack-Ack Macaque [1]: In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain's best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed 'Ack-Ack Macaque'. The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he...
Air
Geoff Ryman
This remarkable novel is about the effects of a new communications technology, Air, that works without power lines or machines. As pervasive technology ensures the rapid spread of pop culture and information access, few corners of the planet remain u...
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
Imperial Radch [1]: A stunning space opera that asks what it means to be human in a universe guided by artificial intelligence.On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she se...
Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie
Imperial Radch [2]: Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only ...
Arabesk
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Pashazade (2001)With its face to the sea and its back to the desert, El Iskandryia is North Africa's most urbane city. A metropolis where cultures meet and clash, where money can buy you everything but safety. On the run from a Seattle prison, Ashraf...
Ash: A Secret History
Mary Gentle
Book of Ash [1]: For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her...
Aztec Century
Christopher Evans
Britain has fallen to the technological might of the Aztec Empire whose armies have rampaged across the globe. Now, for the first time in a millennium, the British are a subject race.Inevitably there is resistance - and among those determined to figh...
Brasyl
Ian McDonald
Think Bladerunner in the tropics...Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world's greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, ...
Brontomek!
Michael G. Coney
The planet Arcadia was on the verge of economic collapse. Its human colony had been decimated by the strange Relay Effect; in the aftermath, still more colonists were leaving for other worlds. The Hetherington Organisation promised to change that. If...
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time [2]: The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, ...
The City & the City
China Miéville
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to po...
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
Great Cities Trilogy [1]: Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five.But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, thre...
The Dervish House
Ian McDonald
It begins with an explosion. Another day, another bus bomb. Everyone it seems is after a piece of Turkey. But the shockwaves from this random act of 21st century pandemic terrorism will ripple further and resonate louder than just Enginsoy Square. ...
Divisions - The Second Half of The Fall Revolution
Ken MacLeod
Fall Revolution [2]: The Cassini DivisionIn the 24th century, post humans, god-like descendents of humans who transformed themselves with high technology, have warped the very fabric of the solar system for unknowable reasons. Ellen May Ngewthu has a...
Embers of War
Gareth L. Powell
Embers of War [1]: The warship Trouble Dog was built and bred for calculating violence, yet following a brutal war, she finds herself disgusted by conflict and her role in a possible war crime. Seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an...
End of the World Blues
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Kit Nouveau didn't escape himself when he flew to Japan. He runs a bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo and is having an affair with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord. All things considered being held up at gunpoint isn't a complete shock. The pale...
Europe in Winter
Dave Hutchinson
Europe [3]: A Fractured Europe. A Parallel World. A Global Threat.Union has come. The Community is now the largest nation in Europe; trains run there from as far afield as London and Prague. It is an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. So what...
Excession
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [5]: Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances - the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section - has sent him off to investigate a ...
The Extremes
Christopher Priest
British-born Teresa Simons returns to England after the death of her husband, an FBI agent, who was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in Texas.A shocking coincidence has drawn her to the run-down south coast town of Bulverton, wh...
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Hyperion Cantos [2]: In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention.On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they c...
Feersum Endjinn
Iain M. Banks
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time...Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones...And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the c...
Gráinne
Keith Roberts
Meet Gráinne: blue-stocking seductress, darling of the media, painfully human yet mysterious as her great namesake, the proud girl-goddess who plunged all Ireland into war and shadow...1987 BSFA Award
Headcrash
Bruce Bethke
A Junior Engineer for Monolithic Diversified Enterprises, Jack Burroughs finds himself caught in a tangled cyberweb of corporate double-dealing and virtual espionage.And when he's forced to put his life on-line, it becomes apparent that his grip 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...
Homunculus
James P. Blaylock
Langdon St. Ives [1]: It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire a...
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