Russell's ebook Library
All the Lives He Led
Frederik Pohl
Two thousand years after Pompeii’s destruction, a thriller of upheaval — volcanic and political — as only SF Grandmaster Frederik Pohl can write it!With a keen eye for the humanity in any situation, science fiction icon Frederik Pohl has crafted a co...
The Boy Who Would Live Forever
Frederik Pohl
In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time.More than twenty-five years later, Pohl completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe: The Boy...
Homegoing
Frederik Pohl
Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy. The only unusual thing about him was that Sandy had been raised by aliens on their spaceship.The Hakh'hli had done everything they could to give Sandy an Earth-type boyhood. Now, finally, the Hakh'hli were br...
Jem
Frederik Pohl
The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instea...
The Last Theorem
Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
The Last Theorem is a story of one man's mathematical obsession, and a celebration of the human spirit and the scientific method.It is also a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, the G...
Mining the Oort
Frederik Pohl
Mars was harsh and unforgiving, but for the colonists who called it home, its future was as bright as the comets that hung in the night sky, for locked in those icy bodies were the water and gases that would make Mars live again, mined from the vast ...
O Pioneer!
Frederik Pohl
Evesham Givt was making a living by freelancing for Earth corporations (and diverting a portion of the corporate funds into his pockets) when he learned of the colony world of Tupelo, settled by five different alien species, where he and his girlfrie...
Outnumbering the Dead
Frederik Pohl
The tale of an actor, Rafiel, who is living on a far-future Earth, one where a simple organization in childhood brings immortality for all.Except a handful of people who prove immune and who live their lives as mortals in an immortal society.
The Singers of Time
Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
When the conquering aliens on Earth find out that their home planet has been destroyed, they turn to the humans - whom they have long treated as intellectually inferior - for the scientific help they need to rescue their planet.
Starburst
Frederik Pohl
THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTESTThe crew of the Constitution-scientists cum astronauts-had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they...
The Starchild Trilogy
Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
An interstellar trilogy - complete in one volume.Earth in the near future is governed by the Plan of Man - a complex set of laws enforced by a worldwide computerized security network, necessary for the survival of humankind. Or, so the authorities sa...
Stopping at Slowyear
Frederik Pohl
Most of the galaxy has outgrown the need for the antiquated trading ship Nordvik, lumbering through space with its stock of equally outdated appliances, data, genetic material, and crafts made by the crew to keep from going crazy between stops.But Sl...
The Voices of Heaven
Frederik Pohl
Barry di Hoa, antimatter engineer assigned to the Moon, was all set to propose marriage to his girlfriend when he was suddenly shanghaied to Paya, a planet light-years away. Worse, the planet was seismically unstable. Even worse, the human colonists ...
The World at the End of Time
Frederik Pohl
Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part of his vast awareness that humans were utterly beneath his notice.The colonists o...
