Russell's ebook Library
253
Geoff Ryman
A cult classic in the making. 253 is the novel about everyone you've ever met and wished you hadn't or wished you could again.252 passengers and one driver on the London Underground. They all have their own personal histories, their own thoughts abou...
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan
Takeshi Kovacs [1]: In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, a...
The Anubis Gates
Tim Powers
Anubis Gates [1]: Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societ...
Apex
Ramez Naam
Nexus [3]: Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neurally-linked protesters. Armies are mobilized. Political orders fall. Nexus-driven rev...
Bannerless
Carrie Vaughn
Bannerless Saga [1]: A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of ci...
Bitter Angels
C. L. Anderson
An Imploding Star System.A Murdered Galactic Spy.A Woman Seeking the Truth — and Finding the Unbelievable…The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies — and constant, creeping decrepitude. Here everyone who is not part of the ...
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Meg Elison
The apocalypse will be asymmetrical. In the aftermath of a plague that has decimated the world population, the unnamed midwife confronts a new reality in which there may be no place for her. Indeed, there may be no place for any woman except at the e...
Countdown City
Ben H. Winters
Last Policeman [2]: Now Detective Hank Palace returns in Countdown City, the second volume of the Last Policeman trilogy. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord poli...
Dinner at Deviant's Palace
Tim Powers
In a nuclear-ravaged California, a humble musician sets out on a dangerous quest to rescue his lost love from the clutches of a soul-devouring religious cultIn the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having...
Elvissey
Jack Womack
Ambient [4]: At once a biting satire and a taut, fast-paced thriller, Elvissey is the story of Isabel and John, a troubled couple who voyage from the year 2033 to a strangely altered 1954.They are on a desperate mission to kidnap the young Elvis Pres...
Emissaries From the Dead
Adam-Troy Castro
Andrea Cort [1]: Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe's dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures.Under order from the Diplomatic ...
Four Hundred Billion Stars
Paul J. McAuley
Four Hundred Billion Stars [1]: Dorothy Yoshida, an astronomer and telepath, joins the archaelogical team exploring the mysterious ruins of a nearly dead planet that shows some signs of returning to life.1988 Philip K. Dick Award
King of Morning, Queen of Day
Ian McDonald
In early-twentieth-century Ireland, life for Emily Desmond is that of the average teenage girl: She reads, she’s bored with school, and she has a powerful imagination. Then things begin to change. Her imagination is so powerful, in fact, that she wil...
Life
Gwyneth Jones
"Life" is a richly textured fictional biography of the brilliant Anna Senoz, a scientist who makes a momentous discovery about the X and Y chromosomes.Anna's discovery provokes widespread sexual rage and impacts cruelly on her career, her marriage, a...
Lost Everything
Brian Francis Slattery
From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road.In the not-distant-enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Su...
The Mercy Journals
Claudia Casper
This unsettling novel is set thirty years in the future, in the wake of a third world war. Runaway effects of climate change have triggered the collapse of nation/states and wiped out over a third of the global population. One of the survivors, a for...
The Mount
Carol Emshwiller
Charley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck.Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he'...
Mysterium
Robert Charles Wilson
In a top-secret government installation near the small town of Two Rivers, Michigan, scientists are investigating a mysterious object discovered several years earlier. Late one evening, the local residents observe strange lights coming from the labor...
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Sprawl [1]: The Matrix: a world within a world, a graphic representation of the databanks of every computer in the human system; a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate users in the Sprawl alone. And by Case, computer c...
Nova Swing
M. John Harrison
Light [2]: Years after Ed Chianese’s fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted — and, even more terrifying, parts of it have actually begun to fall to Earth, transforming the...
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith
Stark is a troubleshooter. He lives in The City - a massive conglomeration of self-governing Neighbourhoods, each with their own peculiarity. Stark lives in Colour, where computers co-ordinate the tone of the street lights to match the clothes that p...
The Petrovitch Trilogy
Simon Morden
Welcome to the Metrozone - post-apocalyptic London of the future. While the rest of Britain has devolved to anarchy, the M25 cordon protects a decaying city filled with homeless refugees, street gangs, exiled yakuza, crooked cops and mad cults. And ...
Points of Departure
Pat Murphy
The stories in this groundbreaking collection - including the Nebula Award-winning 'Rachel in Love' - effortlessly cross the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, blending visionary storytelling with uncompromising realism.They reveal the ex...
Ship of Fools
Richard Paul Russo
Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy for hundreds of years, desperately searching for other signs of life.Now an unidentified transmission lures them toward a nearby planet-and into the dark...
Spin Control
Chris Moriarty
Spin [2]: Call Arkady a clone with a conscience. Or call him a traitor. A member of the space-faring Syndicates, Arkady has defected to Israel with a hot commodity: a genetic weapon powerful enough to wipe out humanity. But Israel’s not buying it. Th...
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