Russell's ebook Library
Assignment in Eternity
Robert A. Heinlein
Classic novellas and short stories from the Dean of Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein. Masterful speculation on what makes us human and the problems, opportunities, and adventures humans must face in order to win a superhuman future.Gulf: in which ...
Between Planets
Robert A. Heinlein
Don Harvey was attending school on Earth when his parents suddenly and urgently called him home to Mars. He had been skeptical about the talk of interplanetary war breaking out if Mars and Venus followed through on their threats to declare independen...
Beyond This Horizon
Robert A. Heinlein
Utopia has been achieved.For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been...
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Robert A. Heinlein
As the old guard of SF ages, we are getting more novels of nostalgia. Heinlein is less sentimental than many of his generation but his new book resembles both the latest Bradbury, in making the author the protagonist, and the latest Asimov, in return...
Citizen of the Galaxy
Robert A. Heinlein
SLAVE:Brought to Sargon in chains as a child - unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar - Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippledmaster...OUTLAW:Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts ...
The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein
Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine.Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy par...
Double Star
Robert A. Heinlein
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was - as usual - in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.Suddenly ...
Farmer in the Sky
Robert A. Heinlein
The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family.Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the...
Farnham's Freehold
Robert A. Heinlein
You Would Have Peace? Then Prepare for War!Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man. and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war.What he hadn't expected was t...
For Us, The Living
Robert A. Heinlein
From Grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939 and never before published, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name.July 12, 1939 Perry Nelson i...
Friday
Robert A. Heinlein
Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns.Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditio...
Glory Road
Robert A. Heinlein
E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for ...
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
Robert A. Heinlein
A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations.First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Moon. The consolation prize ...
I Will Fear No Evil
Robert A. Heinlein
The story of one of the worlds richest and most powerful men, Johann Sebastian Bach Smith, who is on the verge of death and whose only hope is in finding a new body in which to live, and upon surviving the radical surgical procedures involved, finds ...
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 ...
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of three Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth....
Orphans of the Sky
Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein's 1951 novel offers a ship drifting through the currents of space as a microcosm of society, complete with class struggles, politics (including war between inhabitants of different decks), and love and family. Protagonist Hugh Hoyland fights...
The Past Through Tomorrow
Robert A. Heinlein
The Past Through Tomorrow contains all 21 stories, novellas, and novels of Heinlein's Future History series.The four books making up the series:The Man Who Sold the MoonThe Green Hills of EarthRevolt in 2100Methuselah's ChildrenIn addition to the con...
Podkayne of Mars
Robert A. Heinlein
Martian Ms. Podkayne Fries thinks that Earth isn't fit for habitation and has one goal - to be the first female starship captain.Paddy jumps at the chance to accompany her uncle on a trip to Earth via Venus in order to pump the brains of starship off...
The Puppet Masters
Robert A. Heinlein
First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed.Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. government were on the scene ...
The Pursuit of the Pankera
Robert A. Heinlein
The Pursuit of the Pankera is one of the most audacious experiments ever done in science fiction by the legendary author of the classic bestseller Starship Troopers.Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast , which was published in 1980. In th...
Red Planet
Robert A. Heinlein
Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists on Mars, and it set Jim off on a terrfying adventure that coul...
Rocketship Galileo
Robert A. Heinlein
They called themselves the Galileo Club - not a bad name for a group of space-minded young men who had high hopes of putting one of their homemade rocket ships in orbit.But it wasn't until they teamed up with Doc Cargraves that their impossible dream...
Sixth Column
Robert A. Heinlein
It's six against six million in a brilliantly-waged near-future war for nothing less than liberty and justice for all.The totalitarian East has triumphed in a massive invasion and the United States has fallen to a dictatorial superpower bent on total...
Space Cadet
Robert A. Heinlein
This is the seminal novel of a young man's education as a member of an elite, paternalistic non-military organization of leaders dedicated to preserving human civilization, the Solar Patrol, a provocative parallel to Heinlein's famous later novel, St...
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