Russell's ebook Library
Compulsory
Martha Wells
Murderbot Diaries [0.50]: While trying to watch episode 44 of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot is — again, what is it with humans? — distracted by something that is technically outside its purview. A miner is suddenly in danger followin...
The Computer Connection
Alfred Bester
A band of immortals recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess.Dr. Guess, with the group's help, gains control of Extro, the super-computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. They plan to rid Earth of political ...
Concrete Island
J. G. Ballard
An architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control and crashing through the motorway barrier.When he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impos...
The Confederation Handbook
Peter F. Hamilton
The Confederation Handbook by Peter F. Hamilton is an essential companion volume to The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God for all the countless readers past, present and future for whom this massive trilogy has evolved i...
Conferences Are Murder
Val McDermid
Lindsay Gordon [4]: In 1984, after the traumatizing death of her closest friend, amateur sleuth and former reporter Lindsay Gordon left England for California.Nine years later, she finds herself back in her homeland, gathering data for her doctoral t...
The Confession of Brother Haluin
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [15]: In the winter of 1142, snow blankets the Bendictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul causing damage to the guest hall, and the brothers must repair its roof before the danger worsens. The treacherously icy conditions are to prove nig...
The Confusion
Neal Stephenson
Baroque Cycle [2]: The Confusion, the shelf-bending sequel to Neal Stephenson's equally meaty Quicksilver, continues his epic Baroque Cycle by following a remarkable cast of late-17th-century characters that includes spies, vagabonds, and historical ...
The Conqueror
Georgette Heyer
The true story of the bastard son who made himself a king and the woman who melted his heart.The stirring history of William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, who invaded England and became the King. His victory, concluded at the Battle of Hastings in...
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [1]: In the midst of a war between two galactic empires, a shape-changing agent of the Iridans undertakes a clandestine mission to a forbidden planet in search of an intelligent, fugitive machine whose actions could alter the course of th...
The Consuming Fire
John Scalzi
Interdependency [2]: The Interdependency — humanity’s interstellar empire — is on the verge of collapse.The extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible is disappearing, leaving entire systems and human civilizations strande...
Contact
Carl Sagan
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history.Who - or what - is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future - and our own.
Contacting Aliens
David Brin and Kevin Lenagh
The award-winning Uplift novels comprise one of the greatest achievements in science fiction history. Dramatic, thought-provoking, and inventive, these books describe a fully realized world rich in character, detail, and ideas. Now Uplift author Davi...
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
D. G. Compton
A forgotten SF classic that exposed the pitfalls of voyeuristic entertainment decades before the reality show crazeA few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause ...
Contracting for Performance
APM Risk SIG and Bryan Barrow and Peter Campbell
Classic project objectives are set in terms of cost, time and performance. Bringing it in on time and to budget are risk management achievements which are internal to the project.Performance starts before there is a project and continues after the pr...
The Convenient Marriage
Georgette Heyer
Horatia Winwood is simply helping her familyWhen the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself for her family's ha...
Convergent Series
Larry Niven
A short story collection.Bordered in BlackOne FaceLike Banquo's GhostThe MeddlerDry RunConvergent SeriesThe Deadlier WeaponThe NonesuchSingularities Make Me NervousThe Schumann ComputerAssimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!Grammer Lesso...
The Copenhagen Connection
Elizabeth Peters
A strange twist of fate brings Elizabeth Jones face to face with her idol, the brilliant, eccentric historian Margaret Rosenberg, at the Copenhagen Airport.An even stranger accident makes Elizabeth the esteemed scholar's new private assistant. But lu...
Copperhead
Tina Connolly
Ironskin [2]: Helen Huntingdon is beautiful - so beautiful she has to wear an iron mask. Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take over the city. But it was too late for Helen, who opted for fey beauty in her face. She now has to co...
Copperhead
Bernard Cornwell
Starbuck Chronicles [2]: The beloved Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck returns to the front lines of the Civil War in this second installment of Bernard Cornwell's acclaimed Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles.It is the summer of 1862, and Nate has been bl...
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