Russell's ebook Library
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain
Isaac Asimov
Fantastic Voyage [2]: From the phenomenal Isaac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage II, the fabulous sequel to bestselling Fantastic Voyage, is a powerful high-tech thriller set in the near future and in a human brain!A band of Americans and Russians are miniat...
Fantastical
Neal Asher
Fantastical: a short story collection. I’m known for science fiction and, generally, that work is what ends up as a book or in some story collection. But as over the years I scrabbled around to find my opening I also wrote fantasy, contemporary and s...
Far North
Marcel Theroux
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to ...
The Far Shore of Time
Frederik Pohl
Eschaton [3]: Dan Dannerman has been through hell. Caught in the middle of an interstellar war that will end only with the death of the universe, he's been captured by aliens who call themselves the Beloved Leaders, cloned repeatedly, torn from his w...
The Far Side of the World
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [10]: Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and Aubrey's tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written.It is 1812 and the heroes set course across the South Atlantic to intercep...
Farewell Summer
Ray Bradbury
Green Town [2]: In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois.It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever f...
Farmer in the Sky
Robert A. Heinlein
The Earth is crowded and food is rationed, but a colony on Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, offers an escape for teenager Bill Lermer and his family.Back on Earth, the move sounded like a grand adventure, but Bill soon realizes that life on the...
Farnham's Freehold
Robert A. Heinlein
You Would Have Peace? Then Prepare for War!Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man. and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war.What he hadn't expected was t...
Faro's Daughter
Georgette Heyer
Beautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her aunt's elegant gaming house, must find a way to restore herself and her aunt to respectability, preferably without accepting either of two repugnant offers. One is from an older, very rich and rather corpul...
Farside
Ben Bova
Grand Tour [19]: Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder.Telescopes on Earth have...
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K Le Guin
Earthsea [3]: In this third book in the Earthsea series, darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: The world and its wizards are losing their magic. But Ged Sparrohawk — Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord — is determined to discover the source of this d...
Farthest Star
Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
Saga of Cuckoo [1]: There was no shortage of danger on Cuckoo. 20,000 light years away, the enormous flat surface of Cuckoo travelling at one-sixth the speed of light aimed arrow-straight at the galaxy.Sun One sent the space probe Aurora with a crew ...
Farthing
Jo Walton
Small Change [1]: One summer weekend in 1949 - but not our 1949 - the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading fi...
The Fated Sky
Mary Robinette Kowal
Lady Astronaut [2]: One large step for humankind…It’s 1961, and the Earth’s gaze is turning to Mars. The Moon colony is well established, but tensions are rising on Earth — both from those who see themselves being left behind on a disaster-laden plan...
The Father Hunt
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [30]: Twenty-two-year-old Amy Denovo needs Nero Wolfe's help. She is determined to learn the identity of her father, a secret her mother scrupulously guarded - and took to her grave when struck by a hit-and-run driver.Now Wolfe and his sid...
A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire [4]: The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne.The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance...
Feed
Mira Grant
Newsflesh [1]: The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstopp...
Feersum Endjinn
Iain M. Banks
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time...Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones...And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the c...
Feet of Clay
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [19]: Who's murdering harmless old men? who's poisoning the Patrician?As autumn fogs hold Anhk-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen.Maybe the golems know something - but the solemn men of cla...
Fell of Dark
Reginald Hill
A friendship renewed; a marriage going sour; Harry Bentick heads for the Lake District not knowing if he's going in search of something or running away.Then two girls are found murdered in the high fells, and suddenly there's no doubt about it. He's ...
The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings [1]: Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring the definitive text and a detailed map of Middle-earth.Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to ...
The Female Man
Joanna Russ
Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world.Janet is from Whileaw...
Fer-De-Lance
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [1]: As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever...
Fever of the Bone
Val McDermid
Tony Hill & Carol Jordan [6]: He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare — a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no tra...
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