Russell's ebook Library
Fairyland
Paul J. McAuley
The 21st century. Europe is divided between the First World bourgeoisie, made rich by nanotechnology and the cheap versatile slave labour of genetically engineered Dolls and the Fourth World of refugees and homeless displaced by war and economic uphe...
Life After Wartime
Paul J. McAuley
Three long stories and twelve short stories and snapshots set in the aftermath of a short, sharp asymmetrical war between Earth and colonists of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and in the subsequent golden age of exploration and colonisation of the ...
Pasquale's Angel
Paul J. McAuley
Florence in the year 1518 is riven by scientific and sociological change caused b the wonderful devices of the Great Engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Now he is old and lives as a recluse working behind the walls of his castle. The Raphaelites, artists an...
The Secret of Life
Paul J. McAuley
There is life on Mars. But could it end life on Earth? It’s 2025 and the Earth is damaged. Irreparably.The quest for scientific solutions is hampered by commercial greed, political infighting and a mass fear that whatever we do, we can only make thin...
Stories From the Quiet War
Paul J. McAuley
A collection of five stories, including a previously unpublished novella, set in the universe of the author's novels The Quiet War and Gardens of the Sun.After the end of the Quiet War, the victorious forces from Earth have taken control of the citie...
War of the Maps
Paul J. McAuley
On a giant artificial world surrounding an artificial sun, one man - a lucidor, a keeper of the peace, a policeman - is on the hunt. His target was responsible for an atrocity, but is too valuable to the government to be truly punished. Instead he ha...
