Russell's ebook Library
And Be a Villain
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [11]: Radio talk show host Madeline Fraser's worst nightmare comes true when one of her on-air guests collapses at the mike after drinking a glass of the sponsor's beverage.
And Chaos Died
Joanna Russ
An exploration of telepathy and clairvoyance, by an Earthman marooned on an Earth-like planet populated by humans who have lost contact with the home world.
And Four to Go
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe SS [10]: Nero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, star in these four gems.Christmas PartyArchie and his fiancee attend an office party where Wolfe condescends to uncharacteristic theatrics. His dramatic technique is good, but it isn't...
And Put Away Childish Things
Adrian Tchaikovsky
All roads lead to Underhill, where it's always winter, and never nice.Harry Bodie has a famous grandmother, who wrote beloved children's books set in the delightful world of Underhill. Harry himself is a failing kids' TV presenter whose every attempt...
And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees
Michael Bishop
Twelve thousand years in the future, mankind has survived two enigmatic, civilisation-destroying setbacks. Now a third holocaust is anticipated by the people of the island refuge of Ongladred. They fear destruction from invading barbarians of the Ang...
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
The World's Bestselling Mystery "Ten . . ."Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." "Nine . . ."At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by ...
The Android's Dream
John Scalzi
A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most... unusual... way.To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: a type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coro...
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life.Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that ste...
The Angel of the Crows
Katherine Addison
This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting.London 1888. Angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well...
Angelmaker
Nick Harkaway
Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew Tommy Gun Spork, he has turned his back on his family s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe act...
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
George Orwell
"Animal Farm" is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories.Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said ...
The Annals of the Heechee
Frederik Pohl
Heechee [4]: This fourth and concluding volume in Pohl's popular Heechee Saga takes place 100 years after the first, Gateway, when the discovery of abandoned alien spaceships opened the galaxy to human exploration.Now allies, human and Heechee, are g...
Annihilation
Jeff Vandermeer
Southern Reach [1]: Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition en...
The Annihilation Score
Charles Stross
Laundry Files [6]: NOBODY DOES IT BETTER...Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess and deal with the witnesses.But...
Another Day in Cubicle Paradise
Scott Adams
When Dilbert first appeared in newspapers across the country in 1989, office workers looked around suspiciously. Was its creator, Scott Adams, a pen name for someone who worked amongst them? After all, the humor was just too eerily funny and familiar...
Another Death in Venice
Reginald Hill
Trouble strikes a group of tourists in ItalySarah and Michael Masson are on holiday in Italy, and their tour is making its way to Venice — Italy's most romantic city. But so far the trip hasn't been especially romantic. Michael has little patience fo...
Antagonist
Gordon R. Dickson and David W. Wixon
Childe Cycle [11]: Gordon R. Dickson’s “Childe Cycle” of novels depicting the future of the human race has been one of the grand epics of science fiction. At the time of his death in 2001, Dickson was writing Antagonist, the tale of Bleys Ahrens’ tur...
Anthem
Ayn Rand
In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values.Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all tr...
Anti-Ice
Stephen Baxter
A new element has been discovered in a hidden vein near the South Pole.Anti-ice is harmless until warmed, when it releases vast energies that promise new wonders and threaten new horrors beyond humankind's wildest dreams.
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...
Anvil of Stars
Greg Bear
Forge of God [2]: The Forge of God described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet's mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. Only a few humans have ...
The Ape Who Guards the Balance
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [10]: Prospects for the 1907 archaeological season in Egypt are looking somewhat dull to Amelia. As a result of Emerson's less-than-diplomatic behaviour, they have been demoted to examining only the most boring tombs in the Valley of t...
Apes and Angels
Ben Bova
Star Quest [2]: Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Mil...
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...
The Apocalypse Codex
Charles Stross
Laundry Files [4]: Bob Howard may be humanity’s last hope.Start praying… For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast-track for promotion to management within The Laundry, the super-secr...
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