Russell's ebook Library
Jack Faust
Michael Swanwick
Jack Faust is a breathtaking and masterful new spin on Goethe's story of a scholar who sells his soul to the Devil for the gift of unlimited knowledge. But unlike the classic Mephistopheles, the seductive demon who approaches Swanwick's Johannes Faus...
Jack Four
Neal Asher
Created to die – determined to live . . . Jack Four – one of twenty human clones – has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien prador and they only want him for their experimentation program. But there is something different about Jack....
Jack Glass
Adam Roberts
Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start.Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the en...
Jack of Shadows
Roger Zelazny
Shadowjack walks in silence and in shadows to seek vengeance upon his enemies. Who are his foes? All who would despise him or love the Lord of Bats: Smage of the Jackass Ears, the Colonel Who Never Died, the Borshin, and Quazer, winner of the Hellgam...
The Jackal's Head
Elizabeth Peters
Althea Tomlinson says she has returned to Egypt to see the sights, and to chaperon a spoiled teenager through this strange and breathtaking desert land.The truth is more complex... and dangerous. Ten years ago, something here brought about her father...
Jade City
Fonda Lee
Green Bone Saga [1]: Award-winning author Fonda Lee explodes onto the adult fantasy scene with JADE CITY, an epic saga reminiscent of The Godfather with magic and kungfu, set in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.FAMILY IS DUTY. MAGIC IS POWER. HONO...
Jade War
Fonda Lee
Green Bone Saga [2]: On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hun...
The Jagged Orbit
John Brunner
In THE JAGGED ORBIT, Brunner, writing at the peak of form that allowed him to create STAND ON ZANZIBAR, takes a long, hard, disturbing, hilarious look at the near, and not-so-distant, future and the catastrophic changes that widespread and rampant dr...
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Immediately recognized as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is an extraordinary coming-of-age story featuring one of the most independent and strong-willed female protagonists in all of literature.Poor an...
Jem
Frederik Pohl
The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instea...
The Jennifer Morgue
Charles Stross
Laundry Files [2]: Bob Howard — a T-shirt–wearing computer geek and field agent for the super-secret British government agency The Laundry — must save the world from eldritch horrors, codenamed Jennifer Morgue, in this fast-paced spy thriller.Bob's c...
Jenny Trapdoor
Neal Asher
During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. The manipulations of this insane and incredibly dangerous intelligence were grotesque. It granted wishes that were deals with the devil, and transformed ...
Jericho Point
Meg Gardiner
Evan Delaney [3]: When a young woman tumbles dead onto the beach, the police identify the body. It's Evan Delaney. Except that Evan is very much alive. It's her identity that has been stolen. And the thief has compromised more than just Evan's bank a...
The Jesus Incident
Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
Pandora Sequence [2]: A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable.But they have more to deal with than just murderous...
The Jewels of Aptor
Samuel R. Delany
One of the most universally acclaimed first novels in science fiction - by the man who become one of the most stellar writers in the genre's history.On the orders of Argo, the White Goddess, an itinerant poet and his three companions journey to the i...
Jingo
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [21]: DISCWORLD GOES TO WAR, WITH ARMIES OF SARDINES, WARRIORS, FISHERMEN, SQUID AND AT LEAST ONE VERY CAMP FOLLOWER.As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's ...
Job: A Comedy of Justice
Robert A. Heinlein
After he firewalked in Polynesia, the world wasn't the same for Alexander Hergensheimer, now called Alec Graham.As natural accidents occurred without cease, Alex knew Armageddon and the Day of Judgement were near. Somehow he had to bring his beloved ...
Jocasta
Brian W Aldiss
A Theban adventure from the master of Science-Fiction, here proving himself adept at imagining historical worlds.In Jocasta, Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes...
Johnny Mnemonic
William Gibson
The screenplay for the film about a smuggler of the future who uses a computer chip implanted in his brain to transfer valuable information.
Johnny and the Bomb
Terry Pratchett
Johnny Maxwell [3]: It's May 21 1941, thought Johnny. It's war.Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley... as long as it's not the kiss of live.But there's more to ...
Johnny and the Dead
Terry Pratchett
Johnny Maxwell [2]: Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies...Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. B...
The Jonah Kit
Ian Watson
When a young Russian boy disappears from a top-secret Soviet research establishment and turns up in Tokyo, he presents a major problem for the American security officials. For the boy appears to be part of a sophisticated experiment and to have the m...
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Gilbert Norrell is determined to single-handedly rehabilitate his sanitised and patriotic version of English magic, which has suffered a post-Enlightenment neglect after a richly dark history. He ruthlessly secures his place as England’s only magicia...
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