Russell's ebook Library
The Airs of Earth
Brian W Aldiss
Short Story collection.A Kind of ArtistryHow to be a SoldierBasis for NegotiationShards‘O Moon of My Delight!’The International SmileThe Game of GodOld Hundredth
Barefoot in the Head
Brian W Aldiss
The earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary weapon. Many humans are now suffering from delusions and are unable to tell the real from the imaginary. When a man named Colin Charteris tries to make...
The Brightfount Diaries
Brian W Aldiss
In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called Brightfount’s, which he describes as a ‘shabby outpost of literacy’.Cutting the apron strings, he moves into a bed-s...
Brothers of the Head
Brian W Aldiss
Siamese twins, Barry and Tom, have a dormant but sinister third head growing out of Barry’s left shoulder. Plucked from the untamed Norfolk coastline by showbiz entrepreneurs cashing in on their demonically violent and freakish relationship, they for...
Cretan Teat
Brian W Aldiss
Cretan Teat is a bawdy novel, telling the extraordinary tale a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus.This false icon gets adopted by the people – and so becomes instrumental in the downfall of mankind.This is a story wh...
Cryptozoic!
Brian W Aldiss
The human consciousness had now widened so alarmingly, was so busy transforming everything on Earth into its own peculiar tones, that no art could exist that did not take proper cognisance of the fact. Something entirely new had to be forged.The time...
The Dark Light Years
Brian W Aldiss
The Utods are a highly advanced alien species from whom the human race might learn much, with superior technology and a profound philosophy. But when they meet, their customs and conventions are far beneath what humankind considers to be civilized. B...
Dracula Unbound
Brian W Aldiss
When Bram Stoker was writing his famous novel, Dracula, at the end of the 19th century he received a visitor named Joe Bodenland. While the real Count Dracula came from the distant past, Joe arrived from Stoker’s future – on a desperate mission to sa...
Earthworks
Brian W Aldiss
'No way of solving these problems exists any more. The conventions collapsed like old bridges. On the one side of the gulf is the mind, eternal and untouched - on the other, the body, running, jumping, bleeding... The mind can take care of itself, as...
The Eighty Minute Hour
Brian W Aldiss
A Space Opera. An ambitious, incredible - Space Opera! A science-fiction story which occasionally breaks off into song - a genuine space opera. Quite possibly Aldiss’s strangest novel, and that is saying something.
Enemies of the System
Brian W Aldiss
In the far future, a group of evolved utopians stranded on an inhospitable planet are unable to resist the reemergence of the human animal One million years in the future, the universe has become a utopia for the humans inhabiting it.Having evolved i...
Finches of Mars
Brian W Aldiss
In this thoughtful meditation on the future of humanity, colonists on Mars struggle to prevent their own extinction.Doomed by overpopulation, irreversible environmental degradation, and never-ending war, Earth has become a fetid swamp. For many, Mars...
Frankenstein Unbound
Brian W Aldiss
Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva.More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inha...
Greybeard
Brian W Aldiss
After the "Accident," all males on earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now earth's population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with ...
HARM
Brian W Aldiss
From one of science fiction’s greatest living writers comes an unforgettable near-future novel in the hortatory tradition of Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Orwell’s 1984, and Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. Both a searing indictment of a fear-drenched political...
Helliconia
Brian W Aldiss
Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters.The human-lik...
The Horatio Stubbs Trilogy
Brian W Aldiss
For the first time ever all three Horatio Stubbs novels in one volume. An omnibus edition of the groundbreaking sex comedies that together form the Horatio Stubbs Trilogy.Following our hero from schoolboy through to soldier and on to his 40s, these b...
Hothouse
Brian W Aldiss
The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention ...
The Interpreter
Brian W Aldiss
Earthman Gary Towler is a pariah. He must interpret the will of the Nuls who rule his planet, Earth, and he’s running out of time to overthrow their plans...The time: thousands of years hence. The whole of the known universe is dominated by the Nuls,...
An Island Called Moreau
Brian W Aldiss
A castaway government official is stranded on an island of man-made monsters in this bold reimagining of the H. G. Wells science fiction classic War is hell, and the conflict tearing the world apart may be humankind’s last.Set adrift on a makeshift r...
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