Russell's ebook Library
The Coral Bones
E. J. Swift
Three women: divided by time, connected by the ocean. Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles to fight for a future in a world where so much has already been lost. Seventeen-yea...
The Corinthian
Georgette Heyer
A daring escapePenelope Creed will do anything to avoid marrying her repulsive cousin. Dressed in boy's clothing, she's fleeing from London when she's discovered by Sir Richard Wyndham, himself on the verge of the most momentous decision of his life....
Cosm
Gregory Benford
After an accident in a brilliant young physicist's most ambitious experiment, it appears: a wondrous sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing known to science. Before long, it will be clear that this object has opened a vista on an entirely d...
Cosmonaut Keep
Ken MacLeod
Engines of Light [1]: When Alexander Cairns made his fortune, he did some gambling - financing interstallar probes to look for other life forms. Now his son has discovered that one of them has sent back evidence of alien intelligence, and a space ark...
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time.In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.Cosmos retr...
Cotillion
Georgette Heyer
Almost an heiressCountry-bred, spirited Kitty Charings is on the brink of inheriting a fortune from her eccentric guardian - provided that she marries one of his grand–nephews. Kitty has spent her secluded life pining for the handsome, rakish Jack, w...
Count Zero
William Gibson
Sprawl [2]: In the Matrix of cyberspace, angels and voodoo zaibatsus fight it out for world domination and computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero risk their minds for fat crumbs.Turner woke up in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him. The...
Countdown City
Ben H. Winters
Last Policeman [2]: Now Detective Hank Palace returns in Countdown City, the second volume of the Last Policeman trilogy. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord poli...
Counter-Clock World
Philip K. Dick
In Counter-Clock World, one of the most theologically probing of all of Dick’s books, the world has entered the Hobart Phase – a vast sidereal process in which time moves in reverse. As a result, libraries are busy eradicating books, copulation signi...
The Course of Honour
Lindsey Davis
In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite ― a senator, had to follow what was known as "The Course of Honor." This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a sla...
Courtship Rite
Donald Kingsbury
The planet of Geta is a harsh and unforgiving world where only one source of meat exists: man.Cyclical famines have made a distinct, ritualistic form of cannibalism a necessity, and intricate rituals involving courtship, love, death, and multiple mar...
Cousin Kate
Georgette Heyer
A surprising invitationKate Malvern is rescued from penury by her aunt Minerva, who brings her to stay at Staplewood. But the household is strange and strained — Kate's uncle lives in his own private wing, and her handsome, moody cousin Torquil lives...
Cowl
Neal Asher
In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the Umbrathane have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc acros...
Crack Down
Val McDermid
Kate Brannigan [3]: There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with the investigation into a car sales fraud – nothing bad could happen.But by now Kate should know that with Richar...
The Crack in Space
Philip K. Dick
A repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world.Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy mil...
Cradle
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
In 1994, an experimental navy missile mysteriously disappears off the coast of Florida during testing. While investigating the link between the disappearance and some unusual whale sightings, journalist Carol Dawson finds much more: a strange golden ...
Crash
J. G. Ballard
The cult status of "Crash" has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a 'TV scientist', experiments with e...
Crashcourse
Wilhelmina Baird
Crashcourse [1]: Baird's stunning debut is the cybershock novel of the year.Dosh has sold his good looks once too often to rough customers. He's so desperate to get off the planet and start a new life that he persuades friends Moke and Cass to sign a...
Crashlander
Larry Niven
Crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer has long been one of the most popular characters in Known Space. Now, for the first time ever, Larry Niven brings together all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories - including a brand-new one - in one long tale of exploration and...
Creation Machine
Andrew Bannister
Spin Trilogy [1]: It is the aftermath of civil war in the vast pageant of planets and stars known as The Spin. Three years since he crushed the rebellion, Viklun Haas, industrialist and leader of the Hegemony, is eliminating all remnants of the oppos...
Creation Node
Stephen Baxter
In the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments. If not to rec...
Creatures of Light and Darkness
Roger Zelazny
Set on a faraway world, the seminal tale of a battle between Ancient Egyptian gods, Creatures of Light and Darkness is a grand display of the imagination, wit, and audacious genius that has placed Zelazny eternally alongside Heinlein, Asimov, Phillip...
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