Russell's ebook Library
The House of Shattered Wings
Aliette de Bodard
Dominion of the Fallen [1]: Multi-award winning author Aliette de Bodard, brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy… In the late twentieth century, the streets of Pari...
The Inverted World
Christopher Priest
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the c...
The Islanders
Christopher Priest
A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game with you.The Dream Archi...
Jack Glass
Adam Roberts
Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start.Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the en...
The Jagged Orbit
John Brunner
In THE JAGGED ORBIT, Brunner, writing at the peak of form that allowed him to create STAND ON ZANZIBAR, takes a long, hard, disturbing, hilarious look at the near, and not-so-distant, future and the catastrophic changes that widespread and rampant dr...
The Jonah Kit
Ian Watson
When a young Russian boy disappears from a top-secret Soviet research establishment and turns up in Tokyo, he presents a major problem for the American security officials. For the boy appears to be part of a sophisticated experiment and to have the m...
Lavondyss
Robert Holdstock
Mythago Wood [2]: At the heart of the wildwood lies a place of mystery and legend, from which few return and none emerged unchanged: Lavondyss... the ultimate realm, the source of all myth.When Harry Keeton disappeared into Ryhope Wood, his sister Ta...
The Moment of Eclipse
Brian W Aldiss
The fourteen stories in this mind-blowing collection range from outrageous satire to evocative fantasy, revealing the future with an alarming intensity.The Moment of EclipseThe Day We Embarked for Cythera...Orgy of the Living and the DyingSuper-Toys ...
Mythago Wood
Robert Holdstock
Mythago Wood [1]: Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none remain unchanged.Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside...
The Night Sessions
Ken MacLeod
A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it's a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It's been a long time since anyone saw anything like thi...
Orbitsville Trilogy
Bob Shaw
Orbitsville (1975)Racing from the certain vengeance of Earth's tyrant ruler, space captain Vance Garamond flees the Solar System. And discovers the almost unimaginably vast spherical structure soon to become famous as 'Orbitsville' - a new home for E...
Pyramids
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [7]: It isn't easy, being a teenage pharoah. You're not allowed to carry money, uninhibited young women peel your grapes for you, everyone thinks you're responsible for making the sun rise and the corn grow, you keep dreaming about seven th...
The Ragged Astronauts
Bob Shaw
Land and Overland [1]: One planet faces a threat to its survival and so the only hope for its people is to migrate through space by balloon to a sister planet, Overland.1986 BSFA Award
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...
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars [1]: The Future History of Mars - Part One1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon.2020: John Boone becomes the first man to set foot on Mars.2027: The first mass-landing arrives on Mars.It's the greatest challenge mank...
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...
The Rift
Nina Allan
Selena and Julie are sisters. As children they were closest companions, but as they grow towards maturity, a rift develops between them. There are greater rifts, however.Julie goes missing at the age of seventeen. It will be twenty years before Selen...
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...
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 Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
Sparrow [1]: The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing and profound that it makes him question the existence of God.This experience - the first cont...
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...
Take Back Plenty
Colin Greenland
A fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship's computer.Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke A...
Tik-Tok
John Sladek
'A Robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm'.That's Asimov's celebrated First Law of Robotics. And in the 21st century, all domestic robots are programmed according to that Law.But something had go...
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