New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, (1976). SIGNED - Novel set in 1999, in what was then the near future - Lew Nichols' business was stochastic predictions, high-powered guess work, and his life was sucessful and uneventful, until one day he met a man who asked how would be like to be able to control the future instead of just predicting it. Nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula. SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-449135705.