Russell's ebook Library
The Burning City
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Golden Road [1]: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have created a unique and believable world set in the universe of Niven's The Magic Goes Away.The story begins nearly 14,000 years ago in Tep's Town, located on the future site of Los Angeles. Tep's To...
Burning Tower
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Golden Road [2]: Return to the vivid and unusual world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Burning City, where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected for the first time in their history.Unfortunatel...
The Dragons of Heorot
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes
Heorot [2]: The sequel to "The Legacy of Heorot". Twenty years ago, the colonists of Avalon waged a war against the grendels, reptilian creatures larger than alligators. Now the younger members of the colony want to explore the mainland where the gre...
Escape From Hell
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Inferno [2]: Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plat...
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 ...
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...
Inferno
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Inferno [1]: After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map....
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...
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 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 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...
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...
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...
