Russell's ebook Library
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...
Bold as Love
Gwyneth Jones
Bold as Love [1]: Three extraordinary people in some most extraordinary times: It's Dissolution Summer and as the United Kingdom prepares to break up into separate nations, the Counterculturals have gathered for a festival where everything's allowed....
The Calcutta Chromosome
Amitav Ghosh
From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life.When Antar discov...
The Child Garden
Geoff Ryman
In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, And the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism. Information, culture, l...
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time [1]: A race for survival among the stars...Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?The last remnants of the...
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...
Dark Eden
Chris Beckett
Dark Eden [1]: On the alien, sunless planet they call Eden, the 532 members of the Family shelter beneath the light and warmth of the Forest's lantern trees. Beyond the Forest lie the mountains of the Snowy Dark and a cold so bitter and a night so pr...
Distraction
Bruce Sterling
Near future Earth and a new cold war is in full swing - the Dutch Cold War.The US is a shadow of its former self and in hock to Europe, its infrastructure falling apart at the seams and with nomadic tribes roaming from state to state living according...
Dreaming in Smoke
Tricia Sullivan
Kalypso Deed is a shotgun, riding the interface between the AI Ganesh and human scientists who solve problems through cyber-assisted Dreams. But she's young and a little careless; she'd rather mix drinks and play jazz. Azamat Marcsson is a colourless...
Dreams Before the Start of Time
Anne Charnock
In a near-future London, Millie Dack places her hand on her belly to feel her baby kick, resolute in her decision to be a single parent. Across town, her closest friend — a hungover Toni Munroe — steps into the shower and places her hand on a medic c...
Drowning Towers
George Turner
Francis Conway is Swill - one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state.Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blind...
Fairyland
Paul J. McAuley
The 21st century. Europe is divided between the First World bourgeoisie, made rich by nanotechnology and the cheap versatile slave labour of genetically engineered Dolls and the Fourth World of refugees and homeless displaced by war and economic uphe...
Fools
Pat Cadigan
Warning: Personalities for Sale.All the World's a role.In a world of brainsuckers and bodysnatchers, you can't take anything for granted. Not even your own identity.When Marva, a struggling Method actress, wakes up in a hologram pool in an exclusive ...
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words b...
He, She and It
Marge Piercy
In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish ...
Iron Council
China Miéville
New Crobuzon [3]: It is a time of wars and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming city to the ...
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...
The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistak...
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
New Crobuzon [1]: Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia.The air and rivers are thick with fac...
Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson
Baroque Cycle [1]: In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date.The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campu...
Rosewater
Tade Thompson
Wormwood Trilogy [1]: Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its ...
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....
Song of Time
Ian R. MacLeod
Roushana Maitland has known great fame and great sorrow throughout her long life. As a world-renowned musician, she was the queen of the Paris bohemians even as nuclear war raged elsewhere around the globe. She lost a beloved brother in a terrorist-c...
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...
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