Russell's ebook Library
The Dirty Secrets Club
Meg Gardiner
Jo Beckett [1]: Meet Jo Beckett - a forensic psychiatrist who profiles victims' lives to help solve their deaths.On a San Francisco street, Jo confronts a scene of pure carnage: four dead, five injured after a high speed pursuit. In the mangled remai...
Disaster
L. Ron Hubbard
Mission Earth [8]: Who is the true master of disaster?Earthlings: prepare for the shock of your lives!Global warming... reversed.The energy crisis... over.The greatest problem on Earth... solved.Voltarian Royal Officer of the Fleet, Jettero Heller, h...
The Disestablishment of Paradise
Phillip Mann
Something has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise. The human settlers - farmers and scientists - are finding that their crops won't grow and their lives are becoming more and more dangerous. The indigenous plant life - never entirely safe - is chang...
Dispersing the Qualifications Fog
Praxis (Adrian Dooley)
This article first appeared in Project Manager Today Magazine in March 2001.While working on the development of TPG Academy, Adrian Dooley of The Projects Group took a deep look at the current qualification processes for project management.
The Dispossessed
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [5]: The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist wor...
Dissidence
Ken MacLeod
Corporation Wars [1]: They've died for the companies more times than they can remember. Now they must fight to live for themselves.Sentient machines work, fight and die in interstellar exploration and conflict for the benefit of their owners - the co...
The Distant Echo
Val McDermid
Karen Pirie [2]: The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what's still to come will tear them apart...Some things just won't let go.The ...
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...
Distrust That Particular Flavor
William Gibson
Though best known for his fiction, William Gibson is as much in demand for his cutting-edge observations on the world we live in now.Originally printed in publications as varied as Wired, the New York Times, and the Observer, these articles and essay...
The Divine Invasion
Philip K. Dick
Valis [2]: In The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God - or a being called Yah - were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern ...
Divisions - The Second Half of The Fall Revolution
Ken MacLeod
Fall Revolution [2]: The Cassini DivisionIn the 24th century, post humans, god-like descendents of humans who transformed themselves with high technology, have warped the very fabric of the solar system for unknowable reasons. Ellen May Ngewthu has a...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
THE INSPIRATION FOR BLADERUNNER. . .Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time.By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction a...
Dodger
Terry Pratchett
Dodger is a tosher - a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London.Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn't.But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him.And Dodger's ta...
The Dog Stars
Peter Heller
Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows.Hig's wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But whe...
Dogs of War
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Dogs of War [1]: Rex is a Good Dog. He loves humans. He hates enemies. He's utterly obedient to Master. He's also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially de...
The Dollmaker
Nina Allan
Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with surprising depths. Perhaps that's why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector's maga...
Dolphin Island
Arthur C. Clarke
In the near future, a cargo hovership makes an emergency landing in a rural part of the Midwest.An adventurous teenager, Johnny Clinton sneaks on board — only to survive a second crash a few hours later, this time into the Pacific Ocean...The crew es...
Don't Stop Me Now
Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson knows theres more to life than cars. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on with the job in hand, hed like to take some time out to consider the bigger picture. Dont worry, he...
The Doomed City
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel that was their own favorite, and that readers worldw...
The Doomed Planet
L. Ron Hubbard
Mission Earth [10]: Fasten your seatbelts.Mission Earth is approaching climax...And it will rock your world!Who will control Voltar?What is Earth's ultimate fate?And what is the big mystery?The wait is over. Powerful forces are on the move. Entire pl...
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors i...
The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein
Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine.Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy par...
The Doorbell Rang
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [28]: Hired to help society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his able assistant Archie get in over their heads with highly trained G-men who are adept at bugs, tails, and threats.
The Doors of Eden
Adrian Tchaikovsky
They thought we were safe. They were wrong. Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back. Lee thought she’d lost Mal, but now she’s miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where ha...
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