Russell's ebook Library
The H-Bomb Girl
Stephen Baxter
Liverpool 1962. A place and time of danger and passion. A thrilling new music is bursting on to the grey streets of the post-war city: a music that electrifies, a music that promises to change everything. But in Cuba, on the other side of the earth, ...
H.M.S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [3]: H.M.S. Surprise, the third in O'Brian′s acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey′s career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground against admirals, colleagues and the enemy, ...
HARM
Brian W Aldiss
From one of science fiction’s greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Orwell’s 1984, and Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. Both a searing indictment of a fear-drenched political...
Ha'penny
Jo Walton
Small Change [2]: In 1949, eight years after the "Peace with Honor" was negotiated between Great Britain and Nazi Germany by the Farthing Set, England has completed its slide into fascist dicatorship.Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb. The brill...
The Hacker and the Ants
Rudy Rucker
Computer programmer Jerzy Rugby spends his days blissfully hacking away in cyberspace — aiding the GoMotion Corporation in its noble quest to create intelligent robots.Then an electronic ant gets into the machinery... then more ants... then millions ...
Hacknot: Essays on Software Development
Ed Johnson
This book contains 46 essays originally published on the Hacknot web site between 2003 and 2006.The version of each essay appearing in the book is substantially the same as the online version, with some minor revisions and editing.
Half Past Human
T. J. Bass
A novel of dystopian future in the tradition of Soylent Green and H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.SF Masterworks #133
Half a Crown
Jo Walton
Small Change [3]: In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried “undesirables” across the Channel to...
Hallowe'en Party
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [82]: E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Hallowe'en Party2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detectiveMystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hal...
The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury
Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boy...
Halting State
Charles Stross
Halting State [1]: It was called in as a robbery at Hayek Associates, an online game company. So you can imagine Sergeant Sue Smith's mood as she watches the video footage of the heist being carried out by a band of orcs and a dragon, and realises th...
The Hammer and the Cross
Harry Harrison
Hammer and the Cross [1]: 865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.Shef, the bastard son o...
The Hammer of God
Arthur C. Clarke
A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued our time. However, a new problem is on the horizon — one greater than humanity has ever faced. A massive asteroid is racing toward the earth, and its impact could...
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words b...
Happy Policeman
Patricia Anthony
In the small Texas town of Coomey, the Torku deliver VCRs. Clothes. Gasoline. Even Twinkies and Diet Dr Pepper.It began six years ago, on Bomb Day, when the aliens put up the Line to block out the rest of the world. On all the radio bands there is no...
Hard Landing
Algis Budrys
The body was found dead on the tracks, electrocuted. The autopsy confirmed what some had always feared, that we are not alone in the universe - and that even now, some visitors are still at large.This started the investigation that revealed the starl...
Hard Magic
Larry Correia
The Grimnoir Chronicles [1]: Jake Sullivan is a war hero, a private eye — and an ex-con. He’s free because he has a magical talent, being able to alter the force of gravity in himself and objects in his vicinity, and the Bureau of Investigation calls...
Hard News
Jeffery Deaver
Rune [3]: Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, Current Events - and she's got the ...
Hard Times
Charles Dickens and Frederick Busch and Jane Smiley
Reason, Facts, and statistics...Dickens’ scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled ...
The Hard Way
Lee Child
Jack Reacher [10]: Ex–military cop Reacher sees more than most people would... and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow up in his face.For the only way to find the truth — and save two innocent lives — is to d...
Hard to Be a God
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages.Although in possession of far more advanced knowledge than the society around him, he is forbidden to interfere ...
Hardwired
Walter Jon Williams
Hardwired [1]: Earth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth’s Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, panzerjocks, dirtgirls, ...
Harlequin
Bernard Cornwell
Grail Quest [1]: In the fourteenth century the English were just beginning to discover their national identity, and one of the strongest elements of this was the overwhelming success in battle of the English bowmen.
England′s archers crossed the Cha...
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