New York: Dutton, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel, a political thriller about an America in crisis by this award-winning Danish writer, best known as the author of the Department Q Novels. Originally published in Denmark in 2006 and set in what then would have been the near future. Translated by Steve Schein. SIGNED on the title page. Appendix 589 pp. ISBN: 978-1524742522
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: Spectra, (2005). First edition - The author's second novel, sequel to "Hammered" - Peter Watts described these as a combination of "hard science, dystopian geopolitics and a wide-eyed sense of wonder. "The year is 2062, and after years on the run, Jenny Casey is back in the Canadian armed forces. .. at fifty, sheÕ s been handpicked for the most important mission of her life - a mission for which her artificially reconstructed body is perfectly suited." 368 pages plus a preview of "Worldwired"", the final book in this series. ISBN: 0-55358751X.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: EOS / Harper Collins, (2000). First edition - A novel set in "a near future in which humanity's vaunted intellect and technology, its courage and imagination, will be put to the ultimate test against a godlike being billions of years old. 334 pp. plus an 'Afterword.'

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.