Russell's ebook Library

The Secret of Black Ship Island
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes
Heorot [3]: The oldest children of the settlers on Avalon are now in their late teens and want independence from their parents and guardians. They especially don't want parents around for an initiation ceremony, held on Black Ship Island, for the you...

Shipstar
Gregory Benford and Larry Niven
Bowl of Heaven [2]: When a landing party is sent to find out why the Shipstar is on the same trajectory as a human party, half of the group is captured, the other half must go on the run from the bizarre inhabitants.The free group must find a way off...

The Smoke Ring
Larry Niven
The Smoke Ring [2]: Over 14 years after the events described in "The Integral Trees", the Citizen's Tree people discover that the whole computer library from the starship Discipline may be intact. To find it they have to journey across the free-fall ...

Starborn and Godsons
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes
Heorot [4]: THE CONCLUSION OF THE HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans...

Tales of Known Space
Larry Niven
The 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy...The Coldest PlaceBecalmed in HellWait it OutEye of an OctopusHow the Heroes DieThe Jigsaw ManAt the Bottom of a HoleIntent to De...

The Woman in Del Rey Crater
Larry Niven
Gil Hamilton [3]: What do you do with radioactive waste? The moon is a good dumping ground, specifically the Del Rey Crater. But when a woman's corpse is found at the exact center of the radioactive hell, Gil the ARM is sent to investigate. A Known S...

The World of Ptavvs
Larry Niven
Larry's telepathic abilities had been trained and developed to a critical level. But when Larry's mind is taken over by an alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind. A Known Space Novel.

A World Out of Time
Larry Niven
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle - in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.But Corbell picked his time and...