Russell's ebook Library
The State of the Art
Iain M. Banks
The Culture [4]: The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous...
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear.Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve.Moving back and forth in time - from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years...
Stations of the Tide
Michael Swanwick
Genius renegade scientist and bush wizard, Gregorian, has come to the planet Miranda with magic and forbidden technology, planning to remake the planet in his own evil image. Unless he can be stopped, whatever remains on Miranda will spiral towards d...
Steel Beach
John Varley
Eight Worlds [4]: Humanity has been ejected from Earth by enigmatic aliens trying to save cetaceans. Homo sapiens finds itself exiled to strongholds throughout the solar system, foremost of which is Luna. There, human beings live in great comfort wit...
The Steel Crocodile
D. G. Compton
In answer to an unanswerable future, science has created Bohn, the omnipotent computer whose flashing circuits and messianic pronouncements dictate what tomorrow will - or will not - be.But Matthew Oliver is flesh and blood and full of questions - no...
The Steel Remains
Richard K. Morgan
Land Fit for Heroes [1]: When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you have two options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to ...
Still Life
Val McDermid
Karen Pirie [6]: When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland's Firth of Forth, Karen is called into investigate. She quickly discovers that the case will require untangling a complicated web - including a historic disappearance, art fo...
Sting
Sandra Brown
A savvy businesswoman and an assassin struggle to outwit the FBI - and each other.When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something sparks. Shaw is a man who gives off a dangerous vibe that makes other men s...
The Stochastic Man
Robert Silverberg
Lew Nichols can predict the future. Not see the future, just make predictions based on research and statistics. Nichols is damn good at it, though, and his accuracy makes him a valuable addition to Paul Quinnís political campaign for New York City Ma...
Stone Clock
Andrew Bannister
Spin Trilogy [3]: The Spin is nearing the end of its life... Its inhabitants are divided between those who live unknowingly in the relative paradise of one of hundreds of Virtual Realities - vrealities - and those who scrape a living in what remains ...
The Stone Monkey
Jeffery Deaver
Lincoln Rhyme [4]: LINCOLN RHYME RETURNS!First introduced in the spine-chilling novel The Bone Collector, Lincoln Rhyme dazzled readers with unparalleled forensic sleuthing - all done from the confines of a wheelchair. A famed criminologist, paralyze...
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
Broken Earth [3]: The shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic bestselling trilogy.The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.Essun has inherited the power of Alabaste...
Stone Spring
Stephen Baxter
Northland [1]: 8,000 years ago Europe was a very different place. England was linked to Holland by a massive swathe of land. Where the North Sea is now lay the landmass of Northland. And then came a period of global warming, a shifting of continents ...
Stopping at Slowyear
Frederik Pohl
Most of the galaxy has outgrown the need for the antiquated trading ship Nordvik, lumbering through space with its stock of equally outdated appliances, data, genetic material, and crafts made by the crew to keep from going crazy between stops.But Sl...
Stories From the Quiet War
Paul J. McAuley
A collection of five stories, including a previously unpublished novella, set in the universe of the author's novels The Quiet War and Gardens of the Sun.After the end of the Quiet War, the victorious forces from Earth have taken control of the citie...
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories.Tower of Babylon (1990)Originally published in Omni1991 Nebula Best Novelette Winner1991 Hugo Best Novelette Nominee Understand (1991...
Storm Front
Jim Butcher
Dresden Files [1]: Harry Dresden's investigation of a grisly double murder pulls him into the darkest depths of magical Chicago...As a professional wizard, Harry Dresden knows firsthand that the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magica...
Storm of Locusts
Rebecca Roanhorse
Sixth World [2]: When the Goodacre twins show up at Maggie's door with the news that Kai and the youngest Goodacre, Caleb, have fallen in with a mysterious cult, led by a figure out of Navajo legend called the White Locust, she knows what has to be d...
A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire [3]: Now the growing turmoil in the Seven Kingdoms is about to come to a violent head, giving rise to a threat that will soon become "A Storm of Swords".
Stormsong
C. L. Polk
Kingston Cycle [2]: Dame Grace Hensley helped her brother Miles undo the atrocity that stained her nation, but now she has to deal with the consequences. With the power out in the dead of winter and an uncontrollable sequence of winter storms on the ...
The Story of Wine: From Noah to Now
Hugh Johnson
The fully updated edition of Hugh Johnson's multi-award-winning 1989 masterpiece, in which the author explores humanity's fascination with the most venerable of alcoholic beverages 'from Noah to Now'.• New foreword by historian Andrew Roberts• Full o...
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
Mark Hodder
Burton and Swinburne [1]: It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpa...
The Strange Bird
Jeff Vandermeer
The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory - she is part bird, part human, part many other things.But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through ...
Strange Dogs
James S. A. Corey
Expanse [6.50]: Like many before them, Cara and her family ventured through the gates as scientists and researchers, driven to carve out a new life and uncover the endless possibilities of the unexplored alien worlds now within reach.But soon the sol...
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