Russell's ebook Library
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
Elijah Baley [1]: A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership betwee...
Celestis
Paul Park
Entering a Paul Park universe means slipping onto an eerily compelling plane where nearly palpable visions transform as disturbingly as the images in a sexually charged fever dream.While the world imagined here, with its imperial/colonial paradigm, s...
The Centauri Device
M. John Harrison
John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans, or at least half of him was, which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb whic...
Central Station
Lavie Tidhar
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns ...
Century Rain
Alastair Reynolds
Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust.After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to ...
Cetaganda
Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles Vorkosigan [3]: The hero, Miles Vorkosigan, is sent to represent his planet at the funeral of the empress of the planet Cetaganda.While there he becomes involved in a power struggle for the control of software used by Cetaganda's rulers to gene...
Champagne for One
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [21]: Faith Usher had a decidedly morbid personality. She talked about taking her life, and kept cyanide in her purse. So when she collapses and dies from a lethal champagne cocktail in the middle of a high society dinner party, everyone c...
Changeling (Illustrated)
Roger Zelazny
The Changeling Saga [1]: People suffered under Det Morson's power. When the wizard Mor joined the fight, Det & his infamous Rondoval castle were destroyed. But the victory was not complete, for the conquerors found a baby amidst the rubble: Det's...
Changes
Jim Butcher
Dresden Files [12]: As Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden has faced demons, vampires, werewolves, dark sorcerers, and hosts of horrors from beyond the mortal realm. But nothing could have prepared him for this…Long ago, Susan Rodriguez...
The Chantry Guild
Gordon R. Dickson
Childe Cycle [8]: A lone ship piloted by Dorsai Amanda Morgan runs the blockade of Earth. She has come to rouse Hal Mayne from his researches on The Final Encyclopedia.The news she brings is frightening: Bleys Ahrens plans to lead the forces of the Y...
Chanur's Homecoming
C. J. Cherryh
Compact Space [4]: The epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance.Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani cre...
Chanur's Legacy
C. J. Cherryh
Compact Space [5]: In this intrigue- and adventure-packed work, Cherryh takes readers back to Compact space, home territory of the advanced catlike race the hani.Here is the story of the next generation of hani and specifically of Hilfy, the new capt...
Chanur's Venture
C. J. Cherryh
Compact Space [2]: This book picks up about a year after "The Pride of Chanur" leaves off. From the very first moment, you're caught up in the plot and furiously trying to turn the pages faster and faster in order to see what's going to happen.
Chaos
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [24]: In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning — except the weather is perfectly clear wit...
The Chaos
Nalo Hopkinson
Sixteen-year-old Scotch struggles to fit in - at home she's the perfect daughter, at school she's provocatively sassy, and thanks to her mixed heritage, she doesn't feel she belongs with the Caribbeans, whites, or blacks. And even more troubling, lat...
Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune [6]: The long-established galactic order is passing. The Honoured Matres, ruthless and all-conquering, have destroyed the planet Dune.In opposition, the Bene Gesserit sisterhood co-ordinate their resistance from their home world, Chapter House.
Charade
Sandra Brown
A medical miracle gives TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. With her second chance at life Cat trades Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a TV show for children with special needs. Here she meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned cri...
Charity Girl
Georgette Heyer
A young and lovely runaway alone on the road to LondonMiss Charity Steane is running away from the drudgery of her aunt's household to find her grandfather. Not expecting her visit, the old gentleman is not in London but is away in the country.A scan...
Chasing the Dragon
Justina Robson
Quantum Gravity [4]: Lila Black returns in the fourth volume of high-octane, high-magic, high-tech adventures.Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, dem...
A Child Across the Sky
Jonathan Carroll
Answered Prayers [3]: Like many young men before them, Weber and Philip went to Hollywood to make their fortune. Weber became one of the most respected directors of his generation, but Philip's talent went unnoticed until he found his calling making ...
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...
Child's Play
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [9]: There shouldn't be anything unusual about the death of an elderly widow, until a man appears at her graveside, claiming to be her long-lost son. He's entitled to shed all the tears he likes, but whether he's entitled to her subs...
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime.When they f...
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune [3]: The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone.But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their la...
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