Russell's ebook Library
1 - Orbital Resonance
John Barnes
Century Next Door [1]: Young Melpomene Murray lives on an asteroid colony, thousands of miles from an Earth nearly destroyed by disease, war, and pollution.She has been trained since birth to lead mankind into the future.But Melpomene has plans of he...
2 - Kaleidoscope Century
John Barnes
Century Next Door [2]: A stunning evocation of humanity's violent downward slide, Barnes's fourth SF novel is set on Mars during the early part of the 22nd century, in a universe chimerically similar to that of his first, Orbital Resonance.The novel ...
3 - Candle
John Barnes
Century Next Door [3]: Currie Culver is about fifty-five years old, in good health, living in a comfortable retirement in the Rockies with his wife. In the wake of the Meme Wars that swept the planet two generations before, Currie, his wife, and almo...
4 - The Sky So Big and Black
John Barnes
Century Next Door [4]: Terpichore Murray is growing up on Mars. She wants to quit school and become an eco-prospector like her father. He has other ideas; not only does he want her to stay in school, he wants her along on his next long trip conductin...
