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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: 84657More details Price: $15.00 -
BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED.
Edition: 3rd printing.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1960 dj. Hardcover - The second of Huxley's futuristic works published more than 25 years after his classic dystopian novel - but this book is not fiction. It describes the threats facing the world, not just in the future but at the time this was written. Among them are overpopulation, and threats to democracy through mind control through propaganda and "dictatorship by drugs." A book which is a "challenge to complacency and a plea that mankind should educate itself in freedom before it is too late." 164 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (some toning to the pages and to the dj, especially the spine)
Book ID: 91150More details Price: $15.00 -
SEA OF GLASS.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (signs of a small label removal from front endpaper)
Book ID: 78305More details Price: $17.50 -
THE TIME HOPPERS
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1967. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in the vastly overpopulated 25th century, this novel combines a dystopian vision of the future with time traveling (or time hopping) as a way to escape from the crush of the present world. SIGNED on the title page. 182 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, spine slant, etc, in a fair only dustjacket with spine labels.
Book ID: 71767More details Price: $21.50