New York: Bantam, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Both science fiction and mystery, this dystopian novel is set in a bleak future Los Angeles, where the wealthy can use "prowlers" to simulate dangerous erotic experiences - safely, they think, until a man is found brutally murdered and his prowler is missing. Ex-cop McNihil is blackmailed into investigating and finds a world far more evil than he expected. Dark and disturbing. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-553-104837.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1989.). SIGNED first edition - Includes Robinson's Nebula award winning novel, originally published in a limited edition and Le Guin's novella set in the near future, printed back to back. SIGNED by Robinson on the title page of his novel. 142 pp and 42 pp. ISBN: 0-812500105.

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.

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.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - Highly acclaimed first novel by this writer, born in Peru, raised in Alabama, and now living in California, and writing in English. A dystopian view of the future, set in a 'nameless, timeless South American country' where a war has been raging between the government and a guerrilla faction from the jungle. Alarcon's first book, a collection of short stories, won the Whiting Writer's Award and he was chosen by PW as one of the top debut writers of 2007 and In 2010, he was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the 20 best writers in the US under the age of 40. SIGNED on the title page. 257 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, a cyberpunk horror novel set in the near future, the first book in a planned trilogy: An engineered virus has gone wrong, and created a plague that turns women into deadly plastic dolls at puberty. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-312130457.

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.

New York: St Martin's, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, a cyberpunk horror novel set in the near future, the first book in a planned trilogy: An engineered virus has gone wrong, and created a plague that turns women into deadly plastic dolls at puberty. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-312130457.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult science fiction novel - the story of a young orphan girl trying to find herself, who will do anything she has to, in order to follow her dreams, set in the near future in the sterile domed floating city of New Boston. ISBN: 0-531-057836.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the near future, in a Europe and Africa in chaos, by one of the leading white opponents of apartheid in South Africa, who was imprisoned for seven years for "terrorism." 308 pp. ISBN: 0-374-20766-6.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1973. dj. Hardcover - This provocative thriller of tomorrow is rooted firmly in reality: the fascism of the recent past, the social turmoil of today. A dystopian novel set in the near future in a world on the brink of World War III. ISBN: 0-385037163.

New York: Bantam, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A near-future story set in a world of Chinese-held corporations and an America split along racial and religious lines. One seismotologist has developed a unique theory of quake predicition and he is struggling to avoid catastrophe in the form of a colossal earthquake more destructive than any in human history. Author's note, 307 pp.