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PROMISED LAND.
Edition: First thus.
New York: Summit Books, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning Afrikaans writer to be published in English. Originally published in 1978, this was reissued because changing circumstances in South Africa made it even more relevant - it presents a picture of South Africa in what was then 20 or 30 years in the future, with the former privileged ruling class of whites barely managing to survive - a warning of the consequences of apartheid (or of any misrule). Graham Greene described this novel as "a South African 1984" Translated by Marion V. Freedman. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-671-644254.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63776More details Price: $18.00 -
THE RAINBOW CADENZA: A Novel in Logosata Form.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Liberterian writer set in the not-too-distant future, in a brave new world where men outnumber women 7 to 1 and a permanent underclass is hunted for sport. ISBN: 0-671-42003-8.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some soiling to edges of boards and textblock, wear to ends of spine of dj.)
Book ID: 54696More details Price: $12.50 -
THE TIME HOPPERS
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1967. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in the vastly overpopulated 25th century, this novel combines a dystopian vision of the future with time traveling (or time hopping) as a way to escape from the crush of the present world. SIGNED on the title page. 182 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, spine slant, etc, in a fair only dustjacket with spine labels.
Book ID: 71767More details Price: $21.50 -
IN THE CUBE: A NOVEL OF FUTURE BOSTON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Science fiction thriller set in Boston a century from now - Boston is like no other place on earth, an enormous cube containing millions of human and cybernetic beings. It has seceded from the United States after a long and bloody war, but is slowly sinking into the ground. . 286 pp. ISBN: 0-312-85448X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 45829More details Price: $20.00 -
SHOVEL READY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Crown, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A hardboiled noir novel set in a dystopian near future - "Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a blown-out shell of its former self. Now hes a hitman. In a near-future New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to tap in to a sophisticated virtual reality, and those who are left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets." INSCRIBED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 978-0385348997.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84430More details Price: $25.00 -
SOULSAVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (although the novella version of this shared the 1997 UPC Prize for Science Fiction, which Brian Aldiss says is "the most prestigious science fiction award in all of Europe.") Set in 2099 in Puerto Rico in the Christian American Nation, this is the story of a couple of members of the SPCA - the Suicide Prevention Corps of America - whose job it is to get the bodies of suicides repaired and revived. Dustjacket praise from Robert Sawyer, Connie Willis (who called this 'A frightening, funny future full of religion, politics, TV, and even the occasional miracle.') and others. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-151004722.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37828More details Price: $18.00 -
THIS CRUEL DESIGN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon Pulse/ Simon & Schuster, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in The Mortal Coil young adult trilogy about gene-hacking, One review called it "a necessary read for critical readers of speculative, dystopian, and apocalyptic literature. . . Suvada has created a fascinating, complex world where DNA can be easily manipulated (and where race isnt easily defined) and technology can open the mind to endless possibilities. She offers plenty of food for thought about how far technology can take humanity and how far we should let it." SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75908More details Price: $30.00 -
O-ZONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam. (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Theroux's massive dystopian novel of America in the near future, a land of nuclear waste, mutants, the incredibly rich and the masses. A wasteland not due to nuclear war but to "the inexorible pressing of what we already see about us - from the Third World to Times Square, from the halls of the mighty to the haunts of terrorists and killer survivalists." 527 pp. ISBN: 0-399-131858.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61911More details Price: $27.50 -
BLACK MISCHIEF.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good overall in green cloth (with the usual uneven mottling and fading) in a very worn copy of the fragile and rather brittle dust jacket, which is missing about 2 inches at the top of the dj spine, is separated along the side of the spine and mostly separated at the flap folds, and with toning and overall edgewear. Original price of $2.50 on front flap - and copies in the dust jacket are quite uncommon.
Book ID: 87972More details Price: $350.00 -
WINTER'S DAUGHTER: The Saying of Signe Ragnhilds-Datter.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fist novel set in the near future, on earth devastated by nuclear war as seen through the eyes of a survivor, Singe Ragnhilds, half-Norwegian and half American, whose family accepts the offer from Tanzania to live on the now powerful continent of Africa. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-67149984X.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 81017More details Price: $16.50 -
CITY ON FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperPrism, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to the Nebula-nominated "Metropolitan" (1995), an urban noir novel set in a complex dystopian society of the not too far distant future. 498 pp. ISBN: 0-061052132.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to pages)
Book ID: 73434More details Price: $25.00