New York: St Martin's, 1988. SIGNED first edition - Massive book - on the cover it says more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction. SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Pat Cadigan, Kim Stanley Robinson and James Patrick Kelly at their stories. Also includes stories by Michael Bishop, Orson Scott Card, Ursula Le Guin, Pat Murphy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Robert Silverberg, Kate Wilhelm, Gene Wolfe, Octavia Butler, Bruce Sterling, Karen Joy Fowler, Walter Jon Williams and more. xxv, 678 pp. Surprisingly uncommon in any format. ISBN: 0-312-018541.

New York: Warner, 1988. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in the Xenogenesis trilogy , and the hardest one to find. SIGNED on title page. Although Butler was the first science fiction writer to receive a McArthur "genius" award, it is only now, many years after her too-early death at 58, that her writing is beginning to receive the recognition it deserves - both for the way in which she combined slavery narratives with elements like time travel and alien cultures and for the way in which her dystopian novels prefigured the world we are beginning to live in. ISBN: 0-446-514225.

New York: Warner Books, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book in XENOGENESIS series by this award winning author, who was also a recipient of the MacArthur "genius" award for her work - the first science fiction writer to be so honored. Even now, years after her untimely death her reputation continues to grow. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-446-513636.