Russell's ebook Library
All the Myriad Ways
Larry Niven
A short story collection.All the Myriad WaysPasserbyFor a Foggy NightWait it OutThe Jigsaw ManNot Long Before the EndUnfinished Story #1Unfinished Story #2Man of Steel Woman of KleenexExercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of TeleportationT...
Building Harlequin's Moon
Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper
The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine...
Convergent Series
Larry Niven
A short story collection.Bordered in BlackOne FaceLike Banquo's GhostThe MeddlerDry RunConvergent SeriesThe Deadlier WeaponThe NonesuchSingularities Make Me NervousThe Schumann ComputerAssimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!Grammer Lesso...
Crashlander
Larry Niven
Crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer has long been one of the most popular characters in Known Space. Now, for the first time ever, Larry Niven brings together all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories - including a brand-new one - in one long tale of exploration and...
Destiny's Road
Larry Niven
Larry Niven returns in grand form with the story of Planet Destiny, mankind's second attempt at colonising an inhabitable planet of a distant star.Following a fight which ends in the accidental death of a trader, Jimmy Blocher is forced to flee the s...
The Draco Tavern
Larry Niven
Short Story Collection in the Draco Tavern setting.IntroductionThe Subject is ClosedGrammer LessonAssimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!The Schumann ComputerThe Green MarauderThe Real ThingWar MovieLimitsTable Manners*One Night at the D...
Fallen Angels
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn
One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government. That government, dedicated to saving the ...
The Flight of the Horse
Larry Niven
'We don't know where on Earth you'll wind up,' Ra Chen had told him. And the Director of the Institute for Temporal Research didn't know precisely when, either. All he knew was that Hanville Svetz would be travelling back in time almost 2,000 years.B...
The Flying Sorcerers
Larry Niven and David Gerrold
This funny and insightful science fiction classic introduces Shoogar, the greatest wizard ever known in his village. His spells can strike terror in the hearts of even his most powerful enemies.But the enemy he faces now is like none he has ever seen...
Footfall
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star.The world's frantic efforts to s...
A Gift From Earth
Larry Niven
A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. The organ banks are the centre of this world. To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs, and from them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them aliv...
A Hole in Space
Larry Niven
A short story collection.RammerThe Alibi MachineThe Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot ClubA Kind of MurderAll the Bridges RustingThere Is a TideBigger Than Worlds$16,940.00The Hole ManThe Fourth Profession
Inconstant Moon
Larry Niven
Seven brilliant short stories by the award-winning author of Ringworld.Inconstant MoonBordered in BlackHow the Heroes DieAt the Bottom of a HoleOne FaceBecalmed in HellDeath by Ecstasy
In the Cellar
Larry Niven
A short story in the "hard-boiled" vein, revealing just how indestructible some gumshoes really are.
Juggler of Worlds
Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner
For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings...Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of ...
Limits
Larry Niven
A masterful mix of fantasy and science fiction.The Lion in His AtticSpirals (by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)A Teardrop FallsTalisman (by Larry Niven and Dian Girard)Flare TimeThe Locusts (by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes)Yet Another Modest Prop...
Lucifer's Hammer
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam.It was the beginning of a new I...
Neutron Star
Larry Niven
Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers - and a host of other wonderfully created characters.Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx - indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that t...
N-Space
Larry Niven
A short story collection.Introduction: The Maker of Worlds by Tom ClancyOn NivenDramatis PersonaeForeword: Playgrounds for the MindFrom WORLD OF PTAVVS Bordered in Black Convergent Series All the Myriad WaysFrom A GIFT FROM EARTH For a Foggy Nigh...
Oath of Fealty
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty.But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state...
Protector
Larry Niven
Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before...Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fi...
Rainbow Mars
Larry Niven
According to Larry Niven, time travel is logically impossible - sheer fantasy. So when time-agent Svetz heads back from polluted future Earth in search of extinct animals, he tends to sideslip into fantastic, fictional worlds.Rainbow Mars combines bo...
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