Russell's ebook Library
Descent
Ken MacLeod
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR THE TRUTH?Ball lightning. Weather balloons. Secret military aircraft. Ryan knows all the justifications for UFO sightings. But when something falls out of the sky on the hills near his small Scottish town, he finds his cynici...
The Execution Channel
Ken MacLeod
Fighting has spread across the Middle East and Central Asia to the borders of China. In the US, refugees from climate-change disaster subsist in FEMA camps. Images of official executions circulate on the Internet like al Qaeda videos. State agencies ...
The Human Front
Ken MacLeod
Winner of a Prometheus and Sidewise Award, this science fiction novella is a comedic and biting commentary on capitalism and an exploration of technological singularity in a posthuman civilization. As a world war rages on without an emerging victor, ...
Intrusion
Ken MacLeod
Imagine a near-future city, say London, where medical science has advanced beyond our own and a single-dose pill has been developed that, taken when pregnant, eradicates many common genetic defects from an unborn child. Hope Morrison, mother of a hyp...
Learning the World
Ken MacLeod
British author MacLeod delivers perhaps the finest novel of first contact since Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky.When the starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! enters a new star system, its crew assumes that they will seed yet another human, or...
Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
Ken MacLeod
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture - a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings - a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered. Lucinda Ca...
The Night Sessions
Ken MacLeod
A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it's a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It's been a long time since anyone saw anything like thi...
The Restoration Game
Ken MacLeod
There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know — she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organizers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an...
