Russell's ebook Library
Monsters of Men [December 29, 2021]
Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking [3]: “War,” says the Mayor. “At last.”Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to sto...
The Ask and the Answer [December 29, 2021]
Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking [2]: Reaching the end of their flight in The Knife of Never Letting Go, Todd and Viola did not find healing and hope in Haven. They found instead their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss, waiting to welcome them to New Prentisstown. There they...
The Knife of Never Letting Go [December 29, 2021]
Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking [1]: Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks.Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but ...
The New World [December 29, 2021]
Patrick Ness
Chaos Walking [0.50]: A Chaos Walking short story to read with The Knife of Never Letting Go. In this explosive Chaos Walking short story, discover what happened during Viola's terrifying voyage to the New World. Best read immediately after The Knife...
The Ace of Skulls [December 29, 2021]
Chris Wooding
Ketty Jay [4]: All good things come to an end. And this is it: the last stand of the Ketty Jay and her intrepid crew. They've been shot down, set up, double-crossed and ripped off. They've stolen priceless treasures, destroyed a 10,000-year-old Azryx...
The Iron Jackal [December 29, 2021]
Chris Wooding
Ketty Jay [3]: Things are finally looking good for Captain Frey and his crew. The Ketty Jay has been fixed up good as new. They've got their first taste of fortune and fame. And, just for once, nobody is trying to kill them. Even Trinica Dracken, Fre...
The Black Lung Captain [December 29, 2021]
Chris Wooding
Ketty Jay [2]: Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircraft in the sky. Even the simplest robberies seem to go wrong. It's getting so a man can't make a dishonest living any more.Enter Captain G...
Retribution Falls [December 29, 2021]
Chris Wooding
Ketty Jay [1]: Sky piracy is a bit out of Darian Frey’s league. Fate has not been kind to the captain of the airship Ketty Jay — or his motley crew. They are all running from something. Crake is a daemonist in hiding, traveling with an armored golem ...
Far North [December 29, 2021]
Marcel Theroux
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to ...
Galileo's Dream [December 29, 2021]
Kim Stanley Robinson
At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei.To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence th...
Yellow Blue Tibia [December 29, 2021]
Adam Roberts
Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away, and equally convinced that the So...
Spirit [December 29, 2021]
Gwyneth Jones
Bibi (it means princess) is the sole survivor of a massacre. Lady Nef, the General's wife, stops the General taking her as a concubine, winning Bibi's eternal and passionate devotion.Years later, a diplomatic mission to a supposedly friendly planet e...
The Margarets [December 28, 2021]
Sheri S. Tepper
The myriad alien civilizations populating far, distant worlds have many good reasons to detest the blight called "humankind"...The only human child living in a work colony on the Martian satellite Phobos, little Margaret Bain has invented six imagina...
Stories From the Quiet War [December 28, 2021]
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...
Life After Wartime [December 28, 2021]
Paul J. McAuley
Three long stories and twelve short stories and snapshots set in the aftermath of a short, sharp asymmetrical war between Earth and colonists of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and in the subsequent golden age of exploration and colonisation of the ...
Evening's Empires [December 28, 2021]
Paul J. McAuley
Quiet War [4]: In the far future, a young man stands on a barren asteroid. His ship has been stolen, his family kidnapped or worse, and all he has on his side is a semi-intelligent spacesuit. The only member of the crew to escape, Hari has barely bee...
In the Mouth of the Whale [December 28, 2021]
Paul J. McAuley
Quiet War [3]: Humanity's future rests on the shoulders of a Child from the past, and she must never know of the battles being fought for her... In the system of Fomalhaut, a war is being fought. The Quicks came long ago, refugees from the Solar Syst...
Gardens of the Sun [December 28, 2021]
Paul J. McAuley
Quiet War [2]: The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, founded by descendants of refugees from Earth’s repressive regimes, the Outers, have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union, ...
The Quiet War [December 28, 2021]
Paul J. McAuley
Quiet War [1]: Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in...
The H-Bomb Girl [December 28, 2021]
Stephen Baxter
Liverpool 1962. A place and time of danger and passion. A thrilling new music is bursting on to the grey streets of the post-war city: a music that electrifies, a music that promises to change everything. But in Cuba, on the other side of the earth, ...
The Raw Shark Texts [December 28, 2021]
Steven Hall
I was unconscious. I'd stopped breathing. I don't know how long it lasted, but the engines and drivers that keep the human machine functioning at a mechanical level must have trip-switched, responding to the stillness with a general systems panic.Aut...
The Carhullan Army [December 28, 2021]
Sarah Hall
The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy - is run by an omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have been seized, and women are ...
If Then [December 28, 2021]
Matthew de Abaitua
Seizure [2]: James has a scar in the back of his head. It’s where he was wounded in the Battle of Suvla Bay in August 1915. Or is the scar the mark of his implant that allows the Process to fill his mind with its own reality?In IF, the people of a sm...
The Destructives [December 28, 2021]
Matthew de Abaitua
Seizure [3]: Theodore Drown is a destructive. A recovering addict to weirdcore, he’s keeping his head down lecturing at the university of the Moon. Twenty years after the appearance of the first artificial intelligence, and humanity is stuck. The AIs...
The Red Men [December 28, 2021]
Matthew de Abaitua
Seizure [1]: A police helicopter hovers above Hackney. Snipers surround a house under siege. Fascinated, Nelson Millar edges forward to watch the advance of the negotiator: a robot, uncannily tall and serene, designed to empathise with the despair th...
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