Russell's ebook Library
The Best of Connie Willis
Connie Willis
Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. He...
The Best of Greg Egan
Greg Egan
Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificia...
The Best of Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Short story collection:Marooned Off VestaNightfallC-ChuteThe Martian WayThe DeepThe Fun They HadThe Last QuestionThe Dead PastThe Dying NightAnniversaryThe Billiard BallMirror Image
The Best of R. A. Lafferty
R. A. Lafferty
Welcome to this compilation of R. A. Lafferty's finest short stories. You've never read anything like them, and you never will again.Nine Hundred GrandmothersNarrow ValleyIn Our BlockLand of the Great HorsesGroaning Hinges of the WorldContinu...
Better Off Dead
Lee Child and Andrew Child
Jack Reacher [26]: Reacher never backs down from a problem.And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems.Minutes late...
The Better Sister
Alafair Burke
When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters - one the dead man's widow, the other his ex - must set aside mistrust and old resentments... but can they escape their past?Keep your enemies close and your sister closer.Though Ch...
Between Planets
Robert A. Heinlein
Don Harvey was attending school on Earth when his parents suddenly and urgently called him home to Mars. He had been skeptical about the talk of interplanetary war breaking out if Mars and Venus followed through on their threats to declare independen...
Beyond Heaven's River
Greg Bear
Yoshio Kawashita is a great warrior until aliens whisk him away during World War II. They put him on a desolate planet far from his home, where he is destined to remain forever, leaving him alone in his new hell. Then Anna Nestor appears. This empres...
Beyond Infinity
Gregory Benford
BEYOND INFINITY takes a scientist's imagination to the uttermost ends of time.Set more than a billion years from now, the novel begins with a young woman who yearns to escape the rigid, timeless Earth she knows. So she flees, in the company of an int...
Beyond This Horizon
Robert A. Heinlein
Utopia has been achieved.For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been...
Beyond the Aquila Rift
Alastair Reynolds
The very best of his more than sixty published short stories are gathered in Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, a sweeping 250,000 word career retrospective.Great Wall of Mars, Revelation Space, 2000, NoveletteWeather, Revelation ...
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Frederik Pohl
Heechee [2]: Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory - a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food...
Beyond the Door
Philip K. Dick
Beyond The Door... Did you ever what would happen if an inanimate figure not only came to life, but hated you as well?
Beyond the Fall of Night
Arthur C. Clarke and Gregory Benford
Fall of the Night [2]: Hundreds of years after the events in Against the Fall of Night, Alvin and Seranis are working to repopulate the Earth with original species resurrected from a library of ancient genetic information. Among these resurrected bei...
Beyond the Hallowed Sky
Ken MacLeod
Lightspeed [1]: Science fiction legend Ken MacLeod begins a new space opera trilogy by imagining humankind on the precipice of discovery - the invention of faster-than-light travel unlocks a universe of new possibilities, and new dangers. When a bril...
Beyond the Light Horizon
Ken MacLeod
Lightspeed [3]: The Fermi have departed from the rocky worlds, but they still haunt the gas giants. Their long-term intentions remain unknown. Hurled into the past by a time-slip, John Grant and his onboard AI navigate the long way back. They return ...
Beyond the Reach of Earth
Ken MacLeod
Lightspeed [2]: THE FERMI ARE AWAKE. With the invention of faster-than-light travel there is nowhere that humanity cannot go. New worlds are discovered, but with them come new dangers. At the heart of the discovery is the Fermi, mysterious beings tha...
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
Isaac Asimov
This classic collection includes the title story, acclaimed as Asimov's single finest Robot tale. Each of the eleven stories here sparkle with characteristic Asimov inventiveness and imagination.The Prime of LifeFeminine IntuitionWaterclapThat Thou A...
The Big Four
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [29]: Hercule Poirot is preparing for a voyage to South America. Looming in the doorway of his bedroom is an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust and mud. The man’s gaunt face registers Poirot for a moment, and then he col...
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe
Alex White
The Salvagers [1]: A crew of outcasts tries to find a legendary ship before it falls into the hands of those who would use it as a weapon in this science fiction adventure series for fans of The Expanse and Firefly.A washed-up treasure hunter, a hots...
The Big Sun of Mercury
Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr [4]: On the barren planet of Mercury, the mighty power of the Sun is harnessed by a network of wire, creating a giant powerhouse to send solar energy crackling across space.Some unseen enemy is sabotaging the Mercury project. Starr's mis...
The Big Time
Fritz Leiber
You can't know there's a war on — for the Snakes coil and Spiders weave to keep you from knowing it's being fought over your live and dead body!1958 Hugo Award
The Big U
Neal Stephenson
The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious".But if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, th...
Bikini Planet
David S. Garnett
Rookie cop Wayne witnesses a mob hit and must make a swift getaway. But waking up 300 years in the future is more extreme than he'd planned. Putting his only skills into use, he joins GalactiCop, but becomes entangled in a gang war for control of Bik...
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