Russell's ebook Library
Abaddon's Gate
James S. A. Corey
Expanse [3]: For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built...
Accelerando
Charles Stross
Singularity Sky [3]: The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicat...
All Clear
Connie Willis
Oxford Time Travel [2]: Traveling back in time, from Oxford circa 2060 into the thick of World War II, was a routine excursion for three British historians eager to study firsthand the heroism and horrors of the Dunkirk evacuation and the London Blit...
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable - yet strangely inv...
Ancillary Mercy
Ann Leckie
Imperial Radch [3]: The stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Ancillary Justice. For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a...
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 ...
Barrayar
Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia Naismith [2]: Following her marriage to the notorious "Butcher of Komarr" - Lord Aral Vorkosigan - Captain Cordelia Naismith has become an outcast in her own world. Sick of combat and betrayal, she prepares to settle down to a quiet life on ...
Blackout
Connie Willis
Oxford Time Travel [1]: In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape histo...
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars [3]: The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interpl...
Boneshaker
Cherie Priest
Clockwork Century [1]: In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great mach...
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
Lady Astronaut [1]: A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth's efforts...
The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives.January is a dying planet - divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity ...
The Collapsing Empire
John Scalzi
Interdependency [1]: Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible — until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other star...
The Confusion
Neal Stephenson
Baroque Cycle [2]: The Confusion, the shelf-bending sequel to Neal Stephenson's equally meaty Quicksilver, continues his epic Baroque Cycle by following a remarkable cast of late-17th-century characters that includes spies, vagabonds, and historical ...
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods - World War II and the present. Our 1940s' heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-h...
Cyteen
C. J. Cherryh
Cyteen [1]: The first part of C. J. Cherryh's award-winning triad introduces the planet and complex politics of Cyteen, part of the Alliance/Union universe. Resources are limited and the scientific compound of Reseune, which produces computer-trained...
Death's End
Cixin Liu
Three-Body [3]: With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was release...
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Decades into the future, near the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians, by making an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art inter...
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors i...
Embassytown
China Miéville
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent...
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...
Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
Foundation [4]: At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire without k...
Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars [2]: Mars can be plundered – for the benefit of a ravaged Earth. It can be terraformed to suit Man’s needs – frozen lakes form, lichen grows, the atmosphere slowly becomes breathable. But most importantly, Mars can be owned. On Earth, countries ...
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...
Ilium
Dan Simmons
Ilium [1]: The first book in a remarkable two-part epic to be concluded in the upcoming Olympos, Dan Simmons's Ilium is a breathtaking adventure, enormous in scope and imagination, sweeping across time and space to connect three seemingly disparate s...
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