Russell's ebook Library
Rapture
Kameron Hurley
Bel Dame Apocrypha [3]: After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in action in service to the bel dames, a sisterhood of elite government assassins tasked with eliminating deserters and traitors. The end of a centuries-long holy war between h...
The Rapture of the Nerds
Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow
At the dusk of the twenty-first century, Welsh technophobe Huw is one of the billion or so hominids left on Earth, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. The rest have emigrated, uploading their consciousness to a vast cloud that fogs ...
A Rare Benedictine
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [21]: ‘Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsures.’ So wrote Ellis Peters in her introduction to A RARE BENEDICTINE – three vin...
Rats and Gargoyles
Mary Gentle
Rat Lords [1]: It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the "heart of the world," where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence.This energizes a c...
Raven Stratagem
Yoon Ha Lee
Machineries of Empire [2]: War. Heresy. Madness. Shuos Jedao is unleashed. The long-dead general, preserved with exotic technologies as a weapon, has possessed the body of gifted young captain Kel Cheris.Now, General Kel Khiruev’s fleet, racing to th...
The Raven Tower
Ann Leckie
Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this masterful first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C....
The Raven in the Foregate
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [12]: Christmas, 1141 AD. A priest arrives from London to fill the vacant living of Holy Cross (the Foregate) - a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but one who lacks the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, susp...
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall
I was unconscious. I'd stopped breathing. I don't know how long it lasted, but the engines and drivers that keep the human machine functioning at a mechanical level must have trip-switched, responding to the stillness with a general systems panic.Aut...
ReMix
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Cyber Noir [3]: LizAlec is wired for sound, speed and anything else that money can buy. But she's abducted. Her mother's a French minister, who moves Heaven and Earth to find her.Fixx fixes things - recordings, people, anything that makes money. Some...
The Reality Dysfunction
Peter F. Hamilton
Night's Dawn [1]: In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolu...
Reamde
Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon to deliver a high-intensity, high-stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in whic...
Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [11]: Death is missing - presumed... er... gone.Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe - 'You Don't Have to ...
Rebel
Bernard Cornwell
Starbuck Chronicles [1]: When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealistic rescuer. To repay his generosity, he enlists in the Faulconer le...
A Rebel in Time
Harry Harrison
Can history be changed?Can the South still win the War between the States?Colonel McCulloch thinks so... and his gold, his gun, and some very special blueprints stand behind him to help prove it.Sergeant Harmon is a black man who hopes not... and onl...
Recalled to Life
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [13]: It was a crime of passion in onc of England's great houses, an open-and-shut case.But thirty years later, when the convicted nanny is freed, then spirited off to America before she can talk, Yorkshire's Superintendent Dalziel r...
The Recollection: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Gareth L. Powell
Tenth anniversary re-issue of the critically acclaimed space opera by a master of British SF, with beautiful new cover art. First published in 2011."It is an evil born of war. It is the end of all things." Four hundred years ago, Ed and Alice Rico th...
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers
Wayfarers [3]: Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, as humans, artificial intelligence, aliens, and some beings yet undiscovered explore what it means to be a community.Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the ...
Recursion
Blake Crouch
Reality is broken.At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that's sweeping the world is no pathogen.It's just the first shock w...
The Red Box
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [4]: A lovely woman is dead, and the fortunes of overextended theatrical producer Llewellyn Frost depend on solving the mystery of the red box: two pounds of candied fruits, nuts and creams, covered with chocolate - and laced with potassiu...
Red Christmas
Reginald Hill
Have Yourself a Dickensian Christmas! That's what the Dingley Dell, a secluded hotel in the English countryside, promises. Arabella Allen is eager to partake in the dancing, skating, and spiked punch — especially with Boswell, Dickens scholar and cha...
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars [1]: The Future History of Mars - Part One1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon.2020: John Boone becomes the first man to set foot on Mars.2027: The first mass-landing arrives on Mars.It's the greatest challenge mank...
The Red Men
Matthew de Abaitua
Seizure [1]: A police helicopter hovers above Hackney. Snipers surround a house under siege. Fascinated, Nelson Millar edges forward to watch the advance of the negotiator: a robot, uncannily tall and serene, designed to empathise with the despair th...
Red Mist
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [19]: Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on ...
Red Planet
Robert A. Heinlein
Jim Marlow and his strange-looking Martian friend Willis were allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tuned into a treacherous plot that threatened all the colonists on Mars, and it set Jim off on a terrfying adventure that coul...
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