Russell's ebook Library
Fiasco
Stanislaw Lem
'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of ph...
Fierce Conversations
Susan Scott
Fierce Conversations is a way of conducting business. An attitude. A way of life.Communications expert Susan Scott maintains that a single conversation can change the trajectory of a career, marriage or life. Whether these are conversations with your...
The Fifth Elephant
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [24]: Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five?Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers....
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Gene Wolfe
Far from Earth two sister planets, Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix, circle each other. It is said that a race of shapeshifting aliens once lived here, only to become extinct when human colonists arrived. But one man believes they still exist, somewhere ...
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
Broken Earth [1]: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with ...
The Final Deduction
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [24]: When the seemingly safe return of an abducted millionaire ends in his murder in his own home, Nero Wolfe sends Archie Goodwin to do his usual legwork, while Wolfe uncovers corruption and greed among Manhattan's elite.
The Final Encyclopedia
Gordon R. Dickson
Childe Cycle [7]: The Final Encyclopedia tells of the events which occur when the human race is split into three splinter cultures: the Friendlies, fanatic in their faith; the truth-seeking Exotics; and the warrior Dorsai.But now humanity is threaten...
The Final Key
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [11]: The Final Key is the second half of the story arc known as Triad, which began in Schism.Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family. With The Final Key, the Skolian Empire comes ...
The Final, Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [21]: At the time of his death, Patrick O'Brian had begun to write a novel to follow on from Blue at the Mizzen, the twentieth book in the classic series. These are the chapters he had completed of the final voyage of Jack Aubrey and S...
Finch
Jeff Vandermeer
Ambergris [3]: AMBERGRIS: 239 Manzikert Avenue, Apartment 525. Two dead bodies lie on a dusty floor. One corpse is cut in half, the other is utterly unmarked. Only one is human.Ambergris is occupied, ruined and rotting. Its buildings are crumbling, o...
Finches of Mars
Brian W Aldiss
In this thoughtful meditation on the future of humanity, colonists on Mars struggle to prevent their own extinction.Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp. For many, Mars...
Find the Changeling
Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund
The Changeling could become anyone or anything - man, woman, child, animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction. Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of Alvea for its next mission - to throw an entire world into eter...
Finder
Suzanne Palmer
Finder [1]: Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hun...
Finity's End
C. J. Cherryh
Company Wars [7]: Set in the far-future age introduced in her Hugo Award-winning novels Cyteen and Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh tells the story of the oldest Merchanter ship of all, Finity's End.In an era of spies, pirate traders, and uneasy alli...
Fire Time
Poul Anderson
The planet Ishtar has three suns:Bel, the "real" sun, the Life Giver.Ea, the Companion who warms the Ishtaran summers.Anu, the Demon Star.Mostly Anu is so far away that it is just a light in the Ishtaran sky. But once every thousand years it comes cl...
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Qeng Ho [2]: Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone - but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unpredictable, godlike "Powers". When human meddling...
Fire With Fire
Charles E. Gannon
Tales of the Terran Republic [1]: 2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth's Moon — a history-making clandestine project — and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan a...
A Fire in the Sun
George Alec Effinger
Marid Audran [2]: In a world filled with so many puppets, strings tend to get tangled.In this follow-up to the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel WHEN GRAVITY FAILS, the Budayeen is still a very dangerous place, a high-tech Arabian ghetto where power and...
Firebird
Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict [6]: Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies.Alex Benedict and Ch...
The Fires of Aurelius
Robert M. Kerns
Cole & Srexx [4]: An unknown task force. The Coalition shattered. Haven destroyed?The Haven Protectorate continues to chip away at the Coalition's holdings through guile and subterfuge... and supplying resistance movements. Cole doesn't want an all-o...
Fires of Azeroth
C. J. Cherryh
Morgaine [3]: The Gates were relics of a lost era. The Union Science Bureau surmised that they had once linked a whole network of civilizations throughout the galaxy - an empire ruled by a ruthless race known as the qhal. This qhal empire had spanned...
The Fires of Heaven
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [5]: ...Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand al'Thor, now the Dragon Reborn, must conceal his present endeavor from all about him, even Egwene and Moiraine....Into the Amyrlin's study in the White Tower, where the Amyrlin, Fl...
Firewalkers
Adrian Tchaikovsky
FIREWALKERS ARE BRAVEFIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFULFIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLEThe Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And th...
Firewalls for Dummies
Brian Komar and Ronald Beekelaar and Joern Wettern
What an amazing world we live in! Almost anything you can imagine can be researched, compared, admired, studied, and in many cases, bought, with the click of a mouse. The Internet has changed our lives, putting a world of opportunity before us. Unfor...
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