Russell's ebook Library
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Green Town [3]: The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained.In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's P...
Somewhere East of Life
Brian W Aldiss
Squire Quartet [4]: Set in the near future, this picaresque tale follows the travels of architectural historian Roy Burnell, whose task it is to move around the more outrageous parts of the globe, trying to hold what's left of the world together cult...
A Song for a New Day
Sarah Pinsker
After a global pandemic makes public gatherings illegal and concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music - and for one chance at human connection.In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public ...
Song of Time
Ian R. MacLeod
Roushana Maitland has known great fame and great sorrow throughout her long life. As a world-renowned musician, she was the queen of the Paris bohemians even as nuclear war raged elsewhere around the globe. She lost a beloved brother in a terrorist-c...
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
Sarah Pinsker
The baker's dozen stories gathered here turn readers into travellers to the past and the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory, technology, history, mystery, love, loss, a...
Soul Catcher
Frank Herbert
Katsuk, a militant Native American student, has kidnapped thirteen-year-old David Marshall-the son of the US undersecretary of state. He and his young hostage flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must work together to surv...
Soul Music
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [16]: When her dear old Granddad - the Grim Reaper himself - goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death's adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string ...
Soulstar
C. L. Polk
Kingston Cycle [3]: For years, Robin Thorpe has kept her head down, staying among her people in the Riverside neighborhood and hiding the magic that would have her imprisoned by the state. But when Grace Hensley comes knocking on Clan Thorpe’s door, ...
Sourcery
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [5]: There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son... a wizard squared... a sourc...
The Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson
My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used to say it would get me killed, which it hasn't. Not yet, anyway.Born in the dirt of the wasteland, Cara has fought her entire life just to survive. Now she has done the impossibl...
Space Cadet
Robert A. Heinlein
This is the seminal novel of a young man's education as a member of an elite, paternalistic non-military organization of leaders dedicated to preserving human civilization, the Solar Patrol, a provocative parallel to Heinlein's famous later novel, St...
Space Family Stone
Robert A. Heinlein
When the Stone twins made up their minds to leave Lunar City in a secondhand spaceship, they hadn't planned on having their whole family accompany them. But the Stones were not your ordinary Lunar family - no way! - and their voyage through the solar...
The Space Merchants
Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
Space Merchants [1]: It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtena...
Space Opera
Catherynne M. Valente
A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented - something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered wor...
Space Ranger
Isaac Asimov
Lucky Starr [1]: The first adventure in the odyssey of David Starr, Space Ranger.Alien forces have devised a cunning conspiricy to cripple the economy of the Earth.Poisoning from a Martian colony and a flood of mass panic threaten the very survival o...
Space Station Down
Ben Bova and Doug Beason
Hugo Award-winning author Ben Bova joins forces with Nebula Award finalist Doug Beason for an action-packed technothriller with Space Station Down.“Think Die Hard happening two hundred and fifty miles above the earth...Will have you watching the skie...
The Space Trilogy
Arthur C. Clarke
The omnibus edition of three classic and inspirational Clarke talesISLANDS IN THE SKY, first published in 1954sees Roy Malcolm winning a trip to the Inner Station, a space station rotating 500 miles from Earth.THE SANDS OF MARS, first published in 19...
Spacehounds of IPC
E. E. Doc Smith
Smith considered Spacehounds his only "true" work of science fiction, as he said he simply ignored inconvenient science when writing many of the others.When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's crack liner Arcturus took off on a routine flight to Mars, ...
Spaceman of Bohemia
Jaroslav Kalfar
An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discoveryOrphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous...
The Spanish Bride
Georgette Heyer
Shot-proof, fever-proof and a veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellington's army.But at the siege of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his career. For when Harry...
The Spare Man
Mary Robinette Kowal
Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity.Then someone is murdered and the festering chowderh...
Spares
Michael Marshall Smith
Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls – we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own…Spares – human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye – but some people are doing all the ta...
Sparkling Cyanide
Agatha Christie
Colonel Race [2]: Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary — "rosemary for remembrance." A strange sentiment considering no one is likely to forget the night, exactly a year...
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell
Sparrow [1]: The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing and profound that it makes him question the existence of God.This experience - the first cont...
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin [2]: In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but agai...
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