Russell's ebook Library
Babel [August 26, 2023]
R. F. Kuang
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The towe...
Murder Before Evensong [August 26, 2023]
Richard Coles
Canon Clement Mystery [1]: Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother – opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and...
Plague Birds [August 25, 2023]
Jason Sanford
Glowing red lines split their faces. Shock-red hair and clothes warn people to flee their approach. They are plague birds, the powerful merging of humans and artificial intelligences who serve as judges and executioners after the collapse of civiliza...
Machinehood [August 25, 2023]
S. B. Divya
Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It’s, 2095 and people don’t usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay ...
The Unbroken [August 25, 2023]
C. L. Clark
Magic of the Lost [1]: Touraine is a soldier.Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts.But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood ...
She Who Became the Sun [August 25, 2023]
Shelley Parker-Chan
Radiant Emperor [1]: To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything“I refuse to be nothing...”In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness...In 1...
Project Hail Mary [August 25, 2023]
Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission — and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignme...
Light From Uncommon Stars [August 25, 2023]
Ryka Aoki
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with...
The Extractionist [August 25, 2023]
Kimberly Unger
Eliza McKay is, by extreme necessity, a low-profile Extractionist. McKay is an expert in the virtual reality space where minds are uploaded as digital personas. When rich or important people get stuck in the Swim for reasons that are sleazy, illegal,...
Dead Space [August 25, 2023]
Kali Wallace
Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt.Now she spends h...
Road Out of Winter [August 25, 2023]
Alison Stine
Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty. Her family grows marijuana illegally in order to survive. But now she’s been left behind in Ohio to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn’t return for the second year in a row, bringing unpreceden...
Theory of Bastards [August 25, 2023]
Audrey Schulman
"Stage four. Surgery. Recovering." While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is much more complex. Her new reality is bacon rinds for breakfast and feeling unduly thrilled by her increasing abilit...
Paper Hearts [August 24, 2023]
Justina Robson
Robot Dreams [3]: What do Robots dream of?Four leading science fiction authors explore this question in four stand-alone novellas.ROBOT DREAMSAre humans to be trusted with the important things: the structure of society, governing their own lives, met...
The Kaiju Preservation Society [August 24, 2023]
John Scalzi
The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food d...
Perfect Circle [August 21, 2023]
Sean Stewart
William “Dead” Kennedy is in trouble. He’s thirty-two, in love with his ex-wife, has lost his job, and he’s been dreaming about ghost roads again. Sometimes a guy is haunted for a really good reason.Sean Stewart's much-anticipated eighth novel is a d...
Through the Heart [August 21, 2023]
Richard Grant
A monstrous vehicle called the Oasis moves inexorably across the wasteland; a human hive symbolizing sanctuary, it dispenses a treatment for an apocalyptic plague of madness that has destroyed the land. After Kem's father trades him to the Oasis for ...
Detonation Boulevard [August 19, 2023]
Alastair Reynolds
In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, all while dodging the competition, fatigue, and violent lava geysers — there’s only one way Cat knows how to win: Just drive.
Compulsory [August 19, 2023]
Martha Wells
Murderbot Diaries [0.50]: While trying to watch episode 44 of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot is — again, what is it with humans? — distracted by something that is technically outside its purview. A miner is suddenly in danger followin...
Haven Ascendant [August 6, 2023]
Robert M. Kerns
Cole & Srexx [3]: Nothing is ever easy...Tensions rise as the Coalition pursues its war of conquest. Who will be their next target? The Provisional Parliament in the old Commonwealth sinks deeper into fascism as people flee their worlds in droves. Th...
...Till It's Over! [August 6, 2023]
Robert M. Kerns
Cole & Srexx [2]: Claim an inheritance.It's a simple goal, right?Nothing is simple when Cole returns to Centauri, the seat of Coleson Interstellar Engineering. Challenges at every turn, with no idea who he can trust. And then...the Solar Republic get...
It Ain't Over... [August 6, 2023]
Robert M. Kerns
Cole & Srexx [1]: Buy a planet and disappear...That's all Cole wanted.He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes of society, piloting freighters for criminals and building a stash to do just that.But life happens when you're busy making plans.When...
War Bodies [August 6, 2023]
Neal Asher
Rebellion could be their salvation – or their doom. War Bodies by Neal Asher is a gripping, high-octane standalone set in his expansive Polity universe. Long ago, the Cyberat left Earth to co-evolve with machines. Now, led by the powerful dictator Ca...
Season of Skulls [July 22, 2023]
Charles Stross
Laundry Files [13]: Season of Skulls continues Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Lovecraftian Laundry Files series. Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain's avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimagina...
And Put Away Childish Things [July 10, 2023]
Adrian Tchaikovsky
All roads lead to Underhill, where it's always winter, and never nice.Harry Bodie has a famous grandmother, who wrote beloved children's books set in the delightful world of Underhill. Harry himself is a failing kids' TV presenter whose every attempt...
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