Russell's ebook Library
The Year of the Quiet Sun
Wilson Tucker
Brian Chaney, a scholar, has been chosen to travel in time.He leaves his safe home in 1978, going to a world devastated by radiation and almost no one left.
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur – the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe’s population was destroyed.What if the plague killed 99 percent of the pop...
The Yellow Admiral
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [18]: The Yellow Admiral – the eighteenth novel in the sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written – sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonapart...
Yellow Blue Tibia
Adam Roberts
Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away, and equally convinced that the So...
Yellowface
R. F. Kuang
White lies. Dark humour. Deadly consequences...Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Jun...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon
What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska – and not Israel – had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II? In Michael Chabon's Yiddish-speaking 'Alyeska', Orthodox gangs in side-curls and knee breeches roam the streets of Sitka,...
You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat
Harry Harrison
The reader plays the part of a new recruit to the Special Corps, his mission: to travel to the planet Skraldespand to locate Prof. Geiteskrank and return with him in protective custody.The book features the usual collection of grotesque Harrison char...
You Don't Own Me
Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
Under Suspicion [5]: Laurie and her team have uncovered the worst of humanity over the years, from the murder of a rich woman at the Met Gala ball to the gunning-down of Laurie's own husband. And now Laurie and her crew will be faced with their most ...
You Have Arrived at Your Destination
Amor Towles
Forward [4]: Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-firs...
Young Bleys
Gordon R. Dickson
Childe Cycle [9]: By the workings of chance Bleys Ahrens was born the genetic equal of Hal Mayne, the hero of The Final Encyclopedia, but he was destined by nurture to a far different fate. Raised alone by his unhappy Exotic mother, Bleys was an outc...
The Young Hornblower
C. S. Forester
Hornblower [3]: Mr Midshipman Hornblower (1950)1793. A stirring novel of a gallant young officer's first command when England fought to rule the sea.Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)Lieutenant Hornblower emerges from his apprenticeship as a midshipman, to...
