Russell's ebook Library
Long Dark Dusk [December 29, 2021]
James Smythe
Australia [2]: When the violent intersteller transport ship Australia crashes back to Earth, seventeen-year-old Chan finds herself living in poverty on a planet she has never known but always dreamed of, and as she tries to muster the will to survive...
Way Down Dark [December 29, 2021]
James Smythe
Australia [1]: There's one truth on Australia. You fight or you die. Usually both. Imagine a nightmare from which there is no escape. Seventeen-year-old Chan's ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. They never fo...
Arcadia [December 29, 2021]
Iain Pears
In 1962, Henry Lytten, a spy turned academic, sits at his desk dreaming of other worlds.He embarks on the story of a boy who has grown up within a peaceful world - a kind of ARCADIA.When a vision causes him to question the rules of his world, he is l...
The Book of Phoenix [December 29, 2021]
Nnedi Okorafor
Who Fears Death [0.10]: A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and ozone. She has a story to tell.... The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of magical futurism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, ...
Memory of Water [December 29, 2021]
Emmi Itäranta
Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian.In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria...
The Boy on the Bridge [December 29, 2021]
M. R. Carey
Girl With All the Gifts [2]: Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived.
The Girl With All the Gifts [December 29, 2021]
M. R. Carey
Girl With All the Gifts [1]: Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius."Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointed at her while two of his ...
The Book of Strange New Things [December 29, 2021]
Michel Faber
It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corpo...
The Machine [December 29, 2021]
James Smythe
Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated.A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory. Now the machines are gone, declared too controversial, the side-effects too harmful. But...
The Adjacent [December 29, 2021]
Christopher Priest
Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands ...
Nod [December 29, 2021]
Adrian Barnes
Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they've all shared the same strange, golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what ...
The Dog Stars [December 29, 2021]
Peter Heller
Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows.Hig's wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But whe...
Angelmaker [December 29, 2021]
Nick Harkaway
Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew Tommy Gun Spork, he has turned his back on his family s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe act...
Fish Tails [December 29, 2021]
Sheri S. Tepper
Plague of Angels [3]: In Fish Tails , Abasio and Xulai and their children travel from village to village scattered across the sparsely populated land of Tingawa. They are searching for others who might be interested in adopting their sea-dwelling lif...
A Plague of Angels [December 29, 2021]
Sheri S. Tepper
Plague of Angels [1]: Atop a twisting, canyon-climbing road, a witch lurks in a fortress built strong to keep out dragons and ogres.In another part of the countryside, a young orphan is maturing into a beautiful woman in the enchanted village th...
Generosity: An Enhancement [December 29, 2021]
Richard Powers
When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar’s blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. Ho...
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...
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