Russell's ebook Library
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 ...
The Legacy of Heorot
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes
Heorot [1]: Civilization on Earth was rich, comfortable and overcrowded. Millions applied, but only the best were chosen to settle on Tau Ceti Four. The colony was a success, an idyll, the stuff of dreams, but beyond the perimeter the nightmare has b...
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...
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton
Larry Niven
Gil Hamilton [2]: Armed for death in the outer reaches of the galaxy, Gil Hamilton is the global police force's top operative. He can reach into a man's brain for the truth... or for the kill.But Gil's peerless intuition, devastating psychic powers ...
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...
The Magic Goes Away
Larry Niven
Magic [1]: Once there was magic in the world. But hordes of selfish magicians have used up all the mana and even powerful spells are becoming futile. Soon all the creatures of spirit, the unicorns and centaurs, will have disappeared, and unless Orola...
The Magic May Return
Larry Niven
Magic [2]: Larry Niven created his popular "Magic Goes Away" universe in 1967, and it has been a source of delight and inspiration ever since. By asking the simple question, What if magic were a finite resource?, Niven brought to life a mesmerizing w...
The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Moties [2]: This is the sequel to "The Mote in God's Eye".THE GRIPPING HANDHis Excellency Horace Hussein Al-Shamlan Bury, trader and magnate, had hoped never again to hear mention of the gripping hand. Moties, the only aliens mankind has ever encount...
The Moon Maze Game
Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
Dream Park [5]: The Year: 2085. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system. A stable lunar colony is agitating for independence. Lunar tourism is on the rise...Against this background, professional "Close Protection" specialist Scotty Griffin...
More Magic
Larry Niven
Magic [3]: Four stories describe a world of warlocks, wizards, werewolves, dervishes, unicorns, and the magical power of mana.The Lion in His AtticShadow of WingsTalismanMana from Heaven
The Mote in God's Eye
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Moties [1]: In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying...
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...
The Patchwork Girl
Larry Niven
Gil Hamilton [1]: Naomi Mitchison is the most beautiful woman on the moon - and the one who sent a near-fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker of Asteroids.But investigator Gil Hamilton is sure she is not a murderer - and is determined...
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...
Ringworld
Larry Niven
Ringworld [1]: A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million ...
Ringworld's Children
Larry Niven
Ringworld [4]: Welcome to a world like no other. The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and ho...
The Ringworld Engineers
Larry Niven
Ringworld [2]: It's been twenty years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld.Now he and Speaker-To-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. With Louis' help, the Hindmost intends to r...
The Ringworld Throne
Larry Niven
Ringworld [3]: Come back to the Ringworld... the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever writt...
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