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  • GENESIS FIVE. by Allen, Henry Wilson (1912-1991)
    Allen, Henry Wilson (1912-1991)
    GENESIS FIVE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, 1968. Hardcover first edition - Better known as a prolific writer of westerns under the pseudonymns of Will Henry and Clay Fisher, Allen also authored several science fiction works, including this novel set "early in the next century where an armed and hostile truce still prevails between East and West.Yuri Suntar is whisked away from the Moscow Political Academy and spirited aboard a train for Siberia to the headquarters of the top secret Genesis District Five. He knows only that the journey involves a duty to the state and is somehow related to the fact that his twin brother Yang shepherds a a pack of myterious wolves" 256 pp.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, missing front endpaper, spine slant in a good and unmarked dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68743
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  • ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY. by Anders, Charlie Jane.
    Anders, Charlie Jane.
    ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Hugo-award winning writer. Set in near-future San Francisco, in a world careening into chaos, this is the story of two former teenage friends - one a scientist and an engineer, the other a gifted magician - who come together again, despite their differences, to save the world. Winner of the Nebula award and the Locus Award, nominated for the Hugo. SIGNED on the title page. 316 pp. ISBN: 978-0765379948.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (creasing to half title page, toning to edges textblock)

    Book ID: 86858
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  • ILL WIND. by Anderson, Kevin J. and Doug Beason.
    Anderson, Kevin J. and Doug Beason.
    ILL WIND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of ecological disaster, set in the near future: an oil tanker has crashed, producing the worst oil spill in history. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-312-857608.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 82625
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  • FALLOUT. by Anderson, Kevin J, and Doug Beason.
    Anderson, Kevin J, and Doug Beason.
    FALLOUT.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ace Books, (1997.). SIGNED first edition - A techno-thriller set in the near future at a Nevada nuclear test site. Second novel featuring Craig Kreident. SIGNED on the title page by Kevin Anderson. Published as a paperback original, so this advance issue is larger than the final book. 303 pp.

    Condition: Fine in printed orange wrappers.

    Book ID: 45571
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  • METATROPOLIS. by [Anthology, signed] Scalzi, John, editor, signed; Jay Lake, signed.
    [Anthology, signed] Scalzi, John, editor, signed; Jay Lake, signed.
    METATROPOLIS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of "original stories in a shared future" edited and with an introduction by Scalzi and with contributions from Jay Lake, John Scalzi, Tobias Bucknell, Elizabeth Bear and Ken Schroeder. SIGNED by two contributors: on the title page by Scalzi and also by Jay Lake at his story 'In the Forests of the Night.' 286 pp. ISBN: 9780765327109.

    Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, overall tight and clean in a fine, unmarked dust jacket.

    Book ID: 53887
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  • WAR FEVER. by Ballard, J. G.
    Ballard, J. G.
    WAR FEVER.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful collection of short stories - some are disturbing scenarios of life in the near future. The title story is set in war-ravaged Beirut, Lebanon. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-374-286450.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 57348
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  • Barnes, John.
    DAYBREAK ZERO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ace Books, )2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book in his Daybreak series, a sequel to Directive 51, a techno thriller set in the near future, where the modern world is brought to a standstill by radical groups who engineered the destruction of a century of technology. 385 pp. ISBN: 978-044109755.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 65720
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  • MARIPOSA. by Bear, Greg.
    Bear, Greg.
    MARIPOSA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Vanguard, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in the near future by this Hugo and Nebula award winning writer. "In an America driven to near bankruptcy with crushing foreign debt, the Talos Corporation stands out as a major success story training soldiers and security forces from around the world and providing logistics and troops for nearly all branches of the United States government." A Quantico novel. SIGNED on the front endpaper, 340 pp. ISBN: 978-1593154974.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (scratches to back cover of dj)

    Book ID: 72321
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  • Bear, Greg.
    QUEEN OF ANGELS.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Dystopian novel set in 2047 in an America where the microscopic machines of nanotechnology have built a clean, prosperous America. But those who resist the mandatory "therapy" suffer discrimination and poverty. When the mutilated corpses of eight young students are found in the luxury apartment of a noted poet, he becomes the "subject of investigation by an ambitious policewoman, a renegade psychologist, and the murderer's closest friend. Twenty-first century Los Angeles provides the surrealistic setting for a remarkable exploration of human guilt and fears. . . Bear's blending of high-tech gloss with penetrating insights into human nature results in a complex and challenging speculative vision." (Library Journal) 364 pp. ISBN: 0-446514004.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some light toning)

    Book ID: 83792
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  • QUEEN OF ANGELS. by Bear, Greg.
    Bear, Greg.
    QUEEN OF ANGELS.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Dystopian novel set in 2047 in an America where the microscopic machines of nanotechnology have built a clean, prosperous America. But those who resist the mandatory "therapy" suffer discrimination and poverty. When the mutilated corpses of eight young students are found in the luxury apartment of a noted poet, he becomes the "subject of investigation by an ambitious policewoman, a renegade psychologist, and the murderer's closest friend. Twenty-first century Los Angeles provides the surrealistic setting for a remarkable exploration of human guilt and fears. . . Bear's blending of high-tech gloss with penetrating insights into human nature results in a complex and challenging speculative vision." (Library Journal) 364 pp. ISBN: 0-446514004.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some light toning)

    Book ID: 84572
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  • MARIPOSA. by Bear, Greg.
    Bear, Greg.
    MARIPOSA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Vanguard, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in the near future by this Hugo and Nebula award winning writer. "In an America driven to near bankruptcy with crushing foreign debt, the Talos Corporation stands out as a major success story training soldiers and security forces from around the world and providing logistics and troops for nearly all branches of the United States government." A Quantico novel. SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 978-1593154974.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81421
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  • SLANT. by Bear, Greg.
    Bear, Greg.
    SLANT.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel set in the mid-21st century, in a world transformed by nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, and where Green Idaho has become a separatist state. housing a state of the art cyronics center. SIGNED on the title page. 395 pp. ISBN: 0-312855176.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 64489
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  • TURNING ON THE GIRLS. by Benard, Cheryl.
    Benard, Cheryl.
    TURNING ON THE GIRLS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's set novel, set in a near-future world run by women where "twenty-two-year-old Lisa is given the task of updating women's sexual fantasies, while Harmony, an underground men's movement, is plotting a violent revolution to put women back in their place." 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374281785.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 74117
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  • SEX AND THE HIGH COMMAND. by Boyd, John (pseudonym of Boyd Upchurch)
    Boyd, John (pseudonym of Boyd Upchurch)
    SEX AND THE HIGH COMMAND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Weybright and Talley, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in an unspecified near future in which the women, fed up with the mess men have made of the world, decide to take over everything - and the military retaliates. Although Heinlein described it as the "strongest satire on trends in our present culture since 1984." Joanne Russ described it as belonging to the "inane/cheerful" school of books on the war between the sexes. 212 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Paul Lehr.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (spine slightly slanted)

    Book ID: 73451
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  • NO KIDDING. by Brooks, Bruce.
    Brooks, Bruce.
    NO KIDDING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third young adult novel by this award-winning author. Set in the middle of the 21st century, in Washington DC, a 14 year old boy has the burden of deciding the fate of his younger brother after his mother is released from an alcoholic rehabilitation center. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-060207221.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line, light sunning to spine of dj)

    Book ID: 80134
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  • THE STONE THAT NEVER CAME DOWN. by Brunner, John.
    Brunner, John.
    THE STONE THAT NEVER CAME DOWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - A provocative thriller of tomorrow 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. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-385037163.

    Condition: Ex-library with markings and significant reading wear, but in a very good dj.

    Book ID: 82117
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  • Brunner, John.
    THE STONE THAT NEVER CAME DOWN.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    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.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 14574
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  • UNDERTOW (The Undertow Trilogy, Book 1) by Buckley, Michael.
    Buckley, Michael.
    UNDERTOW (The Undertow Trilogy, Book 1)

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Clarion Books, 2015. First edition - The first in a new young adult fantasy trilogy about a young girl caught in a clash of civilizations. "First, we feared them. Then we fought them. Now they might be our only hope. 16-year-old Lyric Walkers life is forever changed when she witnesses the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors, on her beach in Coney Island. The worlds initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyrics small town transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other." 376 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88832
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  • BONE DANCE: A Fantasy for Technophiles. by Bull, Emma.
    Bull, Emma.
    BONE DANCE: A Fantasy for Technophiles.

    Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing.

    New York: Ace Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a post-holocaust Minneapolis. 278 pp. Dust jacket art by Doug Beekman.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (corner flap clipped).

    Book ID: 79992
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  • Caidin, Martin
    NO MANÕS WORLD.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Dutton, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about the space race and the Apollo moon mission, set in what was the near future at the time it was written, by an author was twice awarded the James J. Streberg trophy for outstanding writing in the field of aviation and space.

    Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (stain on front endpaper, ghosts of tape on boards, no other markings, spine slightly faded on dj).

    Book ID: 17969
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  • THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH. by Carey, Peter.
    Carey, Peter.
    THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A 'vaguely futuristic' post-modern picaresque novel by this Booker Prize winning writer. Glossary. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-679-43882.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (prev owner's name.)

    Book ID: 50169
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  • THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH. by Carey, Peter.
    Carey, Peter.
    THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A 'vaguely futuristic' post-modern picaresque novel by this Booker Prize winning writer. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-571171974.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (light toning)

    Book ID: 80129
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  • THE HASTINGS CONSPIRACY. by Coppel, Alfred.
    Coppel, Alfred.
    THE HASTINGS CONSPIRACY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller set in the foreseeable future, in a world sliding towards World War III. 346 pp. ISBN: 0-030560586.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 85617
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  • THE RUINS OF EARTH: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. by Disch, Thomas M. editor.
    Disch, Thomas M. editor.
    THE RUINS OF EARTH: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Putnam, (1971) dj. Hardcover - Includes 16 short stories of ecological catastrophe by well-known authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Rush, James Houston, Philip K. Dick, Daphne du Maurier, Fritz Leiber, Gene Wolfe, Harry Harrison and more. 279 pp.

    Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket with some edgewear, short tears, etc.

    Book ID: 84657
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  • WALKAWAY. by Doctorow, Cory.
    Doctorow, Cory.
    WALKAWAY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. First edition - After watching the breakdown of modern society, Hubert, Etc, has nowhere left to be except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. But when he falls in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society and walk away. But it is still a "dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike." INSCRIBED and dated on the title page "For ...…

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    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. First edition - After watching the breakdown of modern society, Hubert, Etc, has nowhere left to be except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. But when he falls in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society and walk away. But it is still a "dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike." INSCRIBED and dated on the title page "For ... live as though it was the first days of a better nation!" 379 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated orange wrappers with a cut-out on the front cover.

    Book ID: 74949
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  • MAKERS. by Doctorow, Cory.
    Doctorow, Cory.
    MAKERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the near future - "a novel of the whirlwind changes to come" - a world in which Walmarts have been turned into amusement park rides and AK-47s are printed on 3-D printers. SIGNED on the title page. 416 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-12794.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 73507
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  • FUTURE POWER: A Science Fiction Anthology. by Dozois, Gardner R. and Jack Dann, editors.
    Dozois, Gardner R. and Jack Dann, editors.
    FUTURE POWER: A Science Fiction Anthology.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An original anthology collecting nine stories about 'the applications and repercussions of power in the near future' by Ursula K. Le Guin, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree, Jr., George Alec Effinger, Gene Wolfe, Vonda McIntyre and others. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-394-494202.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, missing front endpaper, in a very good unmarked dust jacket.

    Book ID: 42704
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  • FUTURE POWER: A Science Fiction Anthology. by Dozois, Gardner R. and Jack Dann, editors.
    Dozois, Gardner R. and Jack Dann, editors.
    FUTURE POWER: A Science Fiction Anthology.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Random House, (1976.) dj. Hardcover - An original anthology collecting nine stories about 'the applications and repercussions of power in the near future' by Ursula K. Le Guin, R. A. Lafferty, James Tiptree, Jr., George Alec Effinger, Gene Wolfe, Vonda McIntyre and others. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-394-494202.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (lower corner of dj clipped.)

    Book ID: 50513
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  • DISOBEDIENCE. by Drinkard, Michael.
    Drinkard, Michael.
    DISOBEDIENCE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this regional Granta finalist, described as an "unsettling fictional journey into the Southern California state of mind...a darkly funny and unhingingly brilliant multi-generational novel set in the orange groves of Redlands, California, one that shuttles effortlessly from the late nineteenth century to the day after tomorrow." 349 pp. ISBN: 0-39303478X.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 72107
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  • DISOBEDIENCE. by Drinkard, Michael.
    Drinkard, Michael.
    DISOBEDIENCE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this regional Granta finalist, described as an "unsettling fictional journey into the Southern California state of mind...a darkly funny and unhingingly brilliant multi-generational novel set in the orange groves of Redlands, California, one that shuttles effortlessly from the late nineteenth century to the day after tomorrow." SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-39303478X.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 33069
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