Russell's ebook Library
The Secret of Life [December 28, 2021]
Paul J. McAuley
There is life on Mars. But could it end life on Earth? It’s 2025 and the Earth is damaged. Irreparably.The quest for scientific solutions is hampered by commercial greed, political infighting and a mass fear that whatever we do, we can only make thin...
Salt [December 24, 2021]
Adam Roberts
Two narrators tell the story of the simmering tensions between their two communities as they travel out to a new planet, colonise it, then destroy themselves when the tensions turn into outright war.Adam Roberts is a new writer completely in command ...
The Bones of Time [December 24, 2021]
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Set in Hawaii and the Far East, The Bones of Time revolves around the secret of the preserved bones of the greatest of the old Hawaiian kings, Kamehameha. Goonan interweaves two story lines, each with its own central character: Cen, a mathematician w...
Manifold: Origin [December 24, 2021]
Stephen Baxter
Manifold [3]: In the year 2015, astronaut Reid Malenfant is flying over the African continent, intent on examining a mysterious glowing construct in Earth's orbit. But when the very fabric of the sky tears open, spilling living creatures to the groun...
Manifold: Space [December 24, 2021]
Stephen Baxter
Manifold [2]: 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: A gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter,...
Manifold: Time [December 24, 2021]
Stephen Baxter
Manifold [1]: The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation.As the world’s governments turn inward, one man dares to ...
The Family Tree [December 24, 2021]
Sheri S. Tepper
THE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK.Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things ...
Days [December 24, 2021]
James Lovegrove
DAYS describes one day in the life of the Days gigastore, a massive shop seven storeys high and 2.5 kilometres on a side.Within its walls you can buy anything and everything. But there is a price to be paid.A savagely funny satire on a society obsess...
Glimmering [December 24, 2021]
Elizabeth Hand
When the confluence of a solar storm and the collapse of the Antarctic ice shelf ignites the atmosphere like grease, those who are able hide behind their walls and masks, seeking the promise of a seductive — and dangerous — future. As the earth erupt...
Looking for the Mahdi [December 24, 2021]
N Lee Wood
SCIENCE CREATED HIM.GOVERNMENT CONTROLS HIM.ONE WOMAN CAN SET HIM FREE...Halton was a humanoid fabricant, created to serve as a bodyguard in the Middle East. Kay was an all-too-human correspondent, assigned to deliver him to a country from which she ...
Gibbon's Decline and Fall [December 24, 2021]
Sheri S. Tepper
A wave of fundamentalism is sweeping across the globe as the millennium approaches, and a power-hungrypresidential candidate sees his ticket to success in making an example out of a teenage girl who abandoned her infant in a Dumpster.Taking the girl'...
Happy Policeman [December 23, 2021]
Patricia Anthony
In the small Texas town of Coomey, the Torku deliver VCRs. Clothes. Gasoline. Even Twinkies and Diet Dr Pepper.It began six years ago, on Bomb Day, when the aliens put up the Line to block out the rest of the world. On all the radio bands there is no...
Alien Influences [December 23, 2021]
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
On the sun-scorched planet Bountiful, human colonists live peacefully alongside natives known as Dancers until an unspeakable disaster devastates the colony. Six children found dead, their bodies marked in a bizarre parody of a Dancer ritual. The cri...
Pasquale's Angel [December 23, 2021]
Paul J. McAuley
Florence in the year 1518 is riven by scientific and sociological change caused b the wonderful devices of the Great Engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Now he is old and lives as a recluse working behind the walls of his castle. The Raphaelites, artists an...
The Iron Dragon's Mother [December 23, 2021]
Michael Swanwick
Iron Dragon's Daughter [3]: Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon's Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon's Mother.Caitlin...
The Dragons of Babel [December 23, 2021]
Michael Swanwick
Iron Dragon's Daughter [2]: A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant. Nightly, he crawls inside the y...
The Iron Dragon's Daughter [December 23, 2021]
Michael Swanwick
Iron Dragon's Daughter [1]: Part classic fantasy, part Charles Dickens, The Iron Dragon's Daughter is one of the most unique novels in the genre.Jane is a changeling child, enslaved in a factory that makes the iron dragons - terrible engines of war -...
Carlucci's Heart [December 23, 2021]
Richard Paul Russo
Lt. Frank Carlucci [3]: In the burned-out streets of 21st century San Francisco, Lt. Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter's friend - a dying man who was carried off mysteriously. It's one kidnapp...
Carlucci's Edge [December 23, 2021]
Richard Paul Russo
Lt. Frank Carlucci [2]: In the political network of the twenty-first century, some things never change...The future of crime is now.A small-time drug dealer is murdered. The mayor’s nephew is found dead. On the surface they are unrelated. But that su...
Destroying Angel [December 23, 2021]
Richard Paul Russo
Lt. Frank Carlucci [1]: Welcome to the Future... of Madness and MurderIt is a new century built on chaos. Citizens have divided into violent warring factions. Environmental self-destruction has taken its toll by the millions. And two tattooed corpses...
The Broken Land [December 23, 2021]
Ian McDonald
Set in Earth's far future, the fourth novel by consummate stylist Ian McDonald is a stunning vision of violent conflict and healing love.It begins in the village of Chepsenyt, a peaceful, self-sufficient enclave whose inhabitants rely on their geneti...
The City, Not Long After [December 23, 2021]
Pat Murphy
A plague wiped out most of the population, but some have been spared. In San Francisco, those who were left — painters, writers, dreamers — began rebuilding the city in their image: a society based on art, community, and peace. But not everyone has t...
Rats and Gargoyles [December 23, 2021]
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...
War in Heaven [December 23, 2021]
David Zindell
Neverness Cycle [3]: A triumphant close to The Requiem for Homo Sapiens – an epic tour de force that began with The Broken God and was followed by The Wild.Danlo wi Soli Ringess now has the greatest mission of his life to complete. With Bertram Jaspa...
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