Russell's ebook Library
Long Dark Dusk
James Smythe
Australia [2]: When the violent intersteller transport ship Australia crashes back to Earth, seventeen-year-old Chan finds herself living in poverty on a planet she has never known but always dreamed of, and as she tries to muster the will to survive...
The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Long Earth [1]: 1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: M...
The Long Game
Ann Leckie
An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative short story by New York Times bestselling and Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Ann Leckie.On a far-off colony, humans tower over the local species w...
Long Gone
Alafair Burke
After months of unemployment, Alice Humphrey lands her dream job – managing a Manhattan art gallery in the trendy Meatpacking District. According to recruiter Drew Campbell, the gallery is a passion of its anonymous owner, who remains uninvolved in i...
The Long Kill
Reginald Hill
Where better for a hitman to retire than in the Lake District, where the air is healthy and the scenery spectacular? And when Jaymith meets attractive young widow, Anya Wilson, he can't believe his luck. But Jaysmith soon discovers that settling down...
The Long Mars
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Long Earth [3]: 2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds.Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue w...
The Long Sunset
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [8]: Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins discovers an interstellar message from a highly advanced race that could be her last chance for a mission before the program is shut down for good. Hutch has been the Academy’s best pilot for decades. S...
The Long Tomorrow
Leigh Brackett
No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in hte United States of America.Constitution of the United StatesThirteenth Amendment.Two gener...
The Long Utopia
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Long Earth [4]: 2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, an...
The Long War
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Long Earth [2]: War has come to the Long Earth...Humankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by stepping, which Joshua and Lobsang explored a mere decade ago. Now "civilization" flourishes, and fleets of airships link the multiple Earths thr...
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
Wayfarers [1]: Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space — and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe — in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.R...
The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently [2]: When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow...
Look to Windward
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [7]: The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres t...
Looking for the Mahdi
N Lee Wood
SCIENCE CREATED HIM.GOVERNMENT CONTROLS HIM.ONE WOMAN CAN SET HIM FREE...Halton was a humanoid fabricant, created to serve as a bodyguard in the Middle East. Kay was an all-too-human correspondent, assigned to deliver him to a country from which she ...
The Loosening Skin
Aliya Whiteley
In a world where people shed their skin every seven years, it’s just a fact of life that we will cast off all the attachments of our old life. With every moult we become a new person, and though we can discard the past, the skin remembers, brings it ...
Lord Darcy Investigates
Randall Garrett
Lord Darcy [3]: If King Richard the Lionheart hadn't died in 1199 and his descendants ruled the Anglo-French Empire, castles would be illuminated by lantern light and long distance conversation would be held by way of "telesin."In the world of detect...
Lord Edgware Dies
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [39]: Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead, but how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was s...
Lord Kelvin's Machine
James P. Blaylock
Langdon St. Ives [2]: An array of colorful, eccentric villains (including a revived Narbondo) compete to use Lord Kelvin's electromagnetic machine in an elaborate blackmailing plot.
Lord Tedric
E. E. Doc Smith and Gordon Eklund
Lord Tedric [1]: The future of mankind is in the hands of the legendary Corps of One Hundred, an elite body of warriors, selected and trained for the greatest honours in the empire of man. But there is something different about Tedric, the strange Co...
Lord Valentine's Castle
Robert Silverberg
Majipoor [1]: Set in an immense world teeming with alien races and fantastic, almost magical, machinery, Valentine, an itinerant juggler, wakes up one morning with only a vague and troubled idea of who he is.He gradually discovers, through dreams and...
Lord of Chaos
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [6]: On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are forged, and the sky is not the sky of this world;In Salidar the White Tower in exile prepares an embassy to Caemlyn, where Rand Al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, holds the throne - a...
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
In the 1960s, Roger Zelazny dazzled the SF world with what seemed to be inexhaustible talent and inventiveness. Lord of Light, his third novel and the seventh in Millennium's SF Masterworks series, is his finest book: a science fantasy in which the i...
Lord of the Silent
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [13]: Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia and Emerson set sail once again for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and spectres of a present-day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.In the autumn of 1915, Cai...
Lords and Ladies
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [14]: It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere -- even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning... Everything ought to be going like a ...
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