Russell's ebook Library
Jocasta
Brian W Aldiss
A Theban adventure from the master of Science-Fiction, here proving himself adept at imagining historical worlds.In Jocasta, Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes...
The Malacia Tapestry
Brian W Aldiss
In a grand medieval city where all change has been outlawed, a roguish young actor tempts fate and dinosaurs, all in the name of love By law, nothing can change in Malacia — a teeming, eternal city of dukes, players, wizards, merchants, beggars, ape-...
The Male Response
Brian W Aldiss
Written at the peak of the swinging sixties, this is an ironic, hilarious and frank investigation of sexual politics and the male sex drive.Events move fast in Umbalathorp, the capital city of the new African republic of Goya. When affable young PR m...
The Moment of Eclipse
Brian W Aldiss
The fourteen stories in this mind-blowing collection range from outrageous satire to evocative fantasy, revealing the future with an alarming intensity.The Moment of EclipseThe Day We Embarked for Cythera...Orgy of the Living and the DyingSuper-Toys ...
Non-Stop
Brian W Aldiss
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten.Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapp...
No Time Like Tomorrow
Brian W Aldiss
A Collection of 12 original science fiction tales by Mr. Aldiss, who was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2000 and inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004.TNot for an AgePoor Little Warrior!The Failed Men...
The Primal Urge
Brian W Aldiss
How would you like to have a disc set in the middle of your forehead which glowed pink whenever you felt sexually aroused?This is the basis of Brian Aldiss’ amazingly funny and original novel, first published in 1961 and set in a near-future Britain ...
Report on Probability A
Brian W Aldiss
An unending chain of surveillance crosses countless dimensions in this brilliant, disturbing, and groundbreaking “antinovel” by one of science fiction’s greatest practitioners.Mr. Mary and his wife are being observed from at least three vantage point...
Ruins
Brian W Aldiss
Science fiction maestro Brian Aldiss at the top of his writing powers in a rare foray into literary fiction. With a sparse elegance, Aldiss crafts a heart-breaking, heart-fixing novella delving into ideas of selfhood and human connection.The Guardian...
Super-State
Brian W Aldiss
SUPER-STATE is Europe in a mere 40 years' time, where men and women are much like us, but despite technological advancement the basic questions of life have yet to be answered by either philosophers or scientists.The comedy emerges from human behavio...
Vanguard from Alpha
Brian W Aldiss
The spy team from Earth knew they were looking for trouble when they secretly landed in Luna Area 101 - dangerous Rosk territory. But the fearless trio got more than they bargained for at the hands of these hostile guests of Earth.Tyne and Murray esc...
Walcot
Brian W Aldiss
A story charting the events of the twentieth century through the eyes of the Fielding family, whose fortunes are altered irrevocably...On the glorious sands of the North Norfolk coast, Steve, the youngest member of the Fielding family, plays alone. B...
White Mars
Brian W Aldiss and Roger Penrose
A 21st-Century UtopiaTwo of England's most distinguished thinkers have created a bold and startling vision of a new society escaping the ashes of the old.In the not-so-distant future, Man will have begun to colonize our planetary neighbour, Mars. Ent...
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