New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The sixth book in the Jupiter series, young adult coming-of-age novels set in the near future. From the dustjacket: "Fifteen-year -old Linc Marani is from the wrong side of twenty-second century L.A.'s tracks. Everyone he knows is addicted to dope, booze, and the violence that masquerades as bravado in life on the streets. When a chance at some cold hard cash is offered to him by a slick associate in a fancy Cadillac, Linc jumps at the bait - only to find himself sentenced to a juvenile labor camp when the heist goes sour." SIGNED on the title page. Dustjaket art by Vincent Di Fate. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-312862431.

New York: Bantam, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Novel set in the near future: the Soviets have launched a giant space station capable of housing 12,000 citizens - an opportunity for a peaceful utopia or domination? 407 pp. ISBN: 0-553-051695.

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: Atheneum, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel of danger and intrigue set in the near future, a time of shortages and conflict. Paul Killian, 18, is currently employed as a technician at the nation's largest defense center - but they know he is a genius and both sides - those who believe the US should remain whole and those who want the western states to secede - both want him. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-689-312636.

New York: Vantage Press, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in what was the near future at the time this was written in 21st century Scotland, a story which combines science fiction, gothic, adventure and romance - as well ghosts, who dwell in MacKenane castle and appearing and disappearing at will. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 91 pp. ISBN: 0-533022959.

New York: Plume, (1994.). SIGNED - Set in what was the near future - 2013 - in London, this is "part techno-thriller, part futuristic detective story and part the diary of a serial killer." SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-452-271401.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, (1955). dj. Hardcover - A near future story of a completely defeated America and of a commercial artist turned diary farmer, not a hero, but somehow determined to fan the spark of defiance. 190 pp. Dust jacket by Mel Hunter

New York: Ballantine, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - a "riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics" Set in an amoral near future this is a world where "genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event." 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0345526618.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000). First edition - The fifth collaboration between this astrophysicist and author - a thriller about the future battle for solar power. 268 pp.

Mira Loma, CA: Parker Publishing (2008). First edition - A thriller set in the near future. "In the year 2146, the United States has completely collapsed, leaving the country in ruins. In this turmoil, Cybil Lewis and her inspector-in-training, Jane, fill a need. When begged by Jane to look into the disappearance of Jane's cousin, Cybil is catapulted into a world far removed from anything she has experienced so far - a world of lies and deceit." 211 pp. ISBN: -600430376.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first novel, set in a "frighteningly realistic near future." SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 978-0316250818.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second book - called a wonderfully skewed road novel - Oz rewritten in a bleak future. "Since the war and the bombs, Hatfork, Wyoming is a sick town..." SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1000913.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second book - called a wonderfully skewed road novel - Oz rewritten in a bleak future. "Since the war and the bombs, Hatfork, Wyoming is a sick town..." SIGNED by the author. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1000913.

New York: St Martin's, (1987). Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Hugo and Nebula award winning author. "In a near-future world caught in the grips of a population crisis, Thomas Windom, an 'illegal' child is taken from his parents and, with other "outcasters," is raised in a forced labor camp." The camps are a world of torture, brutality and murder, but the outside is no better with the population split into two major blocks - and the computer which controls this has set a "wardate" to ensure that much of the population is killed off. 375 pp. Dust jacket art by Ron Walotsky. ISBN: 0-312007809.

New York: HarperVia / Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - A novel set in the near future which explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought. "In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signes sailboat." Translated from the Norwegian by Diane Oatley. 294 pp.

New York: Berkley / Putnam, (1975) dj. Hardcover - An expanded version of the author's Nebula-award winning story "The Missing Man." 220 pp. Cover illustration by Richard Powers.

Seattle: 47North, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A technological thriller set in the near future: "Bioengineer Peter Bernhardt has dedicated his life to nanotechnology. . As the founder of Biogineers, he is on the cusp of revolutionizing brain therapies with microscopic nanorobots that will make certain degenerative diseases a thing of the past. But after his research is stolen by an unknown enemy, seventy thousand people die in Las Vegas in one abominable moment." Finalist for the P.K. Dick Award. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "The future is yours to create!" (Although not dated, this was signed at Sasquan in 2015, in the same year as publication.) 527 pp plus a note from the author. ISBN: 978-1477828496.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mano's only science fiction novel and a controversial satirical and dystopian take on what the future could be. The dust jacket calls this "a novel about the last man on earth" but it is actually a novel of environmentalism gone beyond any reasonable bounds - "Set in 2035 CE, where draconian attempts to combat environmental pollution have created a Dystopia, and where a convert to Christianity misunderstands the nature of that Religion and becomes a cannibal." (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Surprisingly uncommon in the first edition. 240 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-385028709.

New York: Bantam Books / Spectra, (1994) dj. Hardcover - Novel set in the near future, in Los Angeles in the 21st century, a land where death has been eradicated, thanks to nanotechnology, and so life is cheap. Every major city has a Necroville, or "City of the Dead," the segregated, walled ghetto where the dead sleep, eat and live, off-limits to living humans, until they have paid off the debt they incurred to be resurrected. 277 pp. Dust jacket art by Stephen Youll.

San Francisco: Pegasus Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of the chaos which takes over when it appears that a giant asteroid is on a collision course with earth. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 495 pp. ISBN: 0-9673123-53.

San Francisco: Pegasus Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of the chaos which takes over when it appears that a giant asteroid is on a collision course with earth. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 495 pp. ISBN: 0-9673123-53.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, a thriller set in the 21st century world of underseas cities. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-380974568.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, a thriller set in the 21st century world of underseas cities. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-380974568.

New York: Bantam, (1981). First edition - The first book in a series featuring Matthew Swain "a 21st century hard-boiled private eye in a city where ghettos are war zones, the rich hide behind 6 inches of armor plate and the cops work for the highest bidder." 216 pp plus an excerpt from the second book in the series. ISBN: 0-553148117.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2013). First edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. Nominated for the Hugo. 502 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218924.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. "THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped." SIGNED on the title page. 516 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218993.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse." Novel set in the near future by this award-winning writer (the first book in this series - originally a trilogy - was nominated for the Hugo.) 489 pp. ISBN: 978-0316379342.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. "THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde." SIGNED on the title page. 516 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218993.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2013). First edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. Nominated for the Hugo. 502 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218924.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2013). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. Nominated for the Hugo. SIGNED on the title page. 502 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218955.