New York: Del Rey, (2015). First edition - Robinson's trilogy of near-future eco-thrillers - Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting - featuring cutting-edge science, international politics, and the effects of climate change have been updated and condensed into one massive novel, a story of great floods and a modern Ice Age. Includes a new introduction by Robinson. xvi, 1069 pp. ISBN: 978-1101964835.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A look at New York City a century from now - "As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 613 pp. ISBN: 978-0316262347.

New York: Bantam / Specta, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in his trilogy of ecothrillers, set in a world where "time is running out as quickly as its natural resources, where surveillance is almost total and freedom nearly nonexistent." 388 pp. ISBN: 978-0553803136.

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.

Boston: Ymaa Publication Center, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - An apocalyptic thriller - "Practitioners of a secret art that bestows immortality and more, Sanfeng and Zetian are brother and sister and have lived together in China for more than 3000 years. Now, in the near future of 2009, they face an enemy they recognize from their childhood, a terrifying disease that left them orphaned and alone in the world.The disease kills quickly and without mercyÑvictims die grimacing grotesquelyÑand as it spreads, it brings the siblings to the edge of apocalypse" 332 pp. ISBN: 978-1594390876.

Madison, CT: St. Clair Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (his previous books were about science and space), set in the Bahamas in the near future. An ex-lunar scientist businessman who never made it to the moon has created his own 'moon colony' on earth on a tropical island, and when the crew of his supply ship is killed for allegedly running cocaine, and his daughter is kidnapped, he tries to rescue her. SIGNED on the front endpaper. A massive novel at 536 pages, this has dj blurbs from Arthur C. Clarke and Scott Carpenter among others. ISBN: 0-963235702.

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.

New York: Random House, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the very near future - in a world where the boundaries between real danger and imaginary threats becomes blurred. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Ursula Le Guin, Pete Dexter, Kevin Starr and others. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-679-463178.

New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, (1976). SIGNED - Novel set in 1999, in what was then the near future - Lew Nichols' business was stochastic predictions, high-powered guess work, and his life was sucessful and uneventful, until one day he met a man who asked how would be like to be able to control the future instead of just predicting it. Nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula. SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-449135705.

New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A taut novel of medical conspiracy set in the not-so-distant future, and based on the frontier research of cryogenics---freezing humans until cures are discovered for their otherwise fatal diseases". 236 pp. ISBN: 0-877954291.

New York: Warner, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a satire set in the near future: It's dawn in the Blue Mountains on Jan 20, 2001 and a new president is about to be sworn into office. . 404 pp. ISBN: 0-446-518085.

New York: Warner, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a satire set in the near future: It's dawn in the Blue Mountains on Jan 20, 2001 and a new president is about to be sworn into office. . 404 pp. ISBN: 0-446-518085.

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: Baen Books, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Libertarian science fiction, set in the near future - a worldwide economic collapse has suddenly made freedom seem less desirable than security (sound familiar?) 534 pp. Dust jacket art by Bob Eggleton.

New York: Bantam, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the near future, with 'a strange group of brilliant outlaws - part research team, part hacker cult. ... they chase the monster storms that twist erratically across the Southwestern badlands laid to waste by the greenhouse effect.'. ISBN: 0-553-093932.

New York: Bantam, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the near future, with 'a strange group of brilliant outlaws - part research team, part hacker cult. ... they chase the monster storms that twist erratically across the Southwestern badlands laid to waste by the greenhouse effect.' INSCRIBED on the title page to Larry Owens, the noted Oklahoma book collector with the words "He had to ask" and also stamped with a picture of a computer operator and the hand-printed question "will that be encrypted or non-encrypted" Dated in Austin, Texas in 1995. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-553-093932.

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.

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 & London: Ace Books, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring robbery has taken place at an internet startup" But the bank was located in a virtual land and robbery was supposed to be impossible. Vernor Vinge called this "a near-future story that is at once over the top and compellingly believable." SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for 2008 Hugo. ISBN: 9780441014989.

New York & London: Ace Books, (2007) dj. Hardcover - "In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring robbery has taken place at an internet startup" But the bank was located in a virtual land and robbery was supposed to be impossible. Vernor Vinge called this "a near-future story that is at once over the top and compellingly believable." Nominated for 2008 Hugo. 351 pp,. ISBN: 9780441014989.

New York: Ace Books, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - A near-future thriller by this Hugo-award winning writer. "Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh is head of the Rule 34 Squad, monitoring the Internet to determine whether people are engaging in harmless fantasies or illegal activities. Three ex-con spammers have been murdered, and Liz must uncover the link between them before these homicides go viral." 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0441020348.

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.

New York: Random House, (2012). First edition - Her first novel, a wonderful and uncommon coming-of-age story set in the near future where the rotation of the earth has begun to slow, and changes to everyone's lives inexorably follow. Cover praise from Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Karen Russell and more. Letter from publisher bound in. 272 pp.

New York: Random House, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel, a wonderful and uncommon coming-of-age story set in the near future where the rotation of the earth has begun to slow, and changes to everyone's lives inexorably follow. Dust jacket praise from Amy Bloom, Yiyun Li, Aimee Bender, Karen Russell and more. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780812992977.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996). Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, set in the near future, a time when government means multinational corporation and life means a struggle to survive the effects of overpopulation, poverty, pollution, and hunger. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-312857659.

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.

New York: Doubleday, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in California in the 21st century, a world devasted by pollution, war and disease. SIGNED and dated on the title page by Yarbro, who also corrected her year of birth on the copyright page. When signing this Yarbro commented that it was only the first printing dust jacket that the red eyes of the mutant pirate on a motorcycle on the cover were improperly offset. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-385-131445.

New York: Warner, (1979). SIGNED - Novel set in California in the 21st century, a world devastated by pollution, war and disease. Thea is a mutant, a human who has been virally modified to be able to survive in the poisonously polluted environment. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 237 pp. Cover art by Jim Dietz. ISBN: 0-446-90077x.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as a "breakthrough vision of a violent bio-tech future" this novel is cutting edge science fiction, set in the near future - in the strange days of the 21st century. "America is caught on a cusp between social breakthrough and total breakdown. Sanity cops try to stem the chaos as a revolution in genetic engineering offers anyone the chance to change shape at will.. . The Hammerheads are the most dangerous creatures who have ever lived, with the brilliant cunning of human criminals. and insatiable hunger of killer sharks." SIGNED and dated at the World Fantasy Convention 2009 on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-312857667.