Russell's ebook Library
Cloudbound [May 31, 2020]
Fran Wilde
Bone Universe [2]: The Towers in disarray, without a governing body or any defense against the dangers lurking in the clouds, and daily life is full of terror and strife.Nat Densira, the wing-brother to Kirit (Skyshouter, Spirebreaker, no-longer-of-D...
Juniper Time [May 31, 2020]
Kate Wilhelm
Man reached for the stars - and failed to keep the Earth in his grasp.With the western United States devastated by drought, the survivors huddle in squalid concentration camps in the east. And still the dream won't go away. In high orbit, an artefact...
After World's End [May 31, 2020]
Jack Williamson
Legion of Time [2]: A contemporary rocket explorer who manages to get stuck in cold sleep in a cometary orbit in the Solar System for a million years. This enables him to play a leading role in the uprising of humans against their robot masters.
The Gropes [May 25, 2020]
Tom Sharpe
It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hal...
Ancestral Vices [May 25, 2020]
Tom Sharpe
With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life. Professor of Demotic History at the University of Kloone, Yapp spends his days highlighting the corrupt capitalistic nature of the upper-classes, and his nights feeding Doris his...
Head On [May 25, 2020]
John Scalzi
Lock In [2]: Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this w...
Lock In [May 25, 2020]
John Scalzi
Lock In [1]: Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the Unit...
Agent to the Stars [May 25, 2020]
John Scalzi
The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge.The Yherajk ne...
The Android's Dream [May 25, 2020]
John Scalzi
A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most... unusual... way.To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: a type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coro...
The God Engines [May 25, 2020]
John Scalzi
Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to w...
Fuzzy Nation [May 25, 2020]
John Scalzi
Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting an...
The Last Emperox [May 25, 2020]
John Scalzi
Interdependency [3]: The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systems — and billions of people — are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization.This collapse...
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