ISBNs for twenty first century fiction

ISBN.nu

search for books and compare prices

twenty first century fiction matches 129 work(s)

at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 25 >

show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest

On Wings of Song

A powerful, bizarre vision of the future imagines a device called 'The Symphonette' that allows humans to take flight through cyberspace, thus freeing themselves from the harsh realities of life in the real world. Reprint.

By Thomas M. Disch

See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780312584665 | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leaves behind the repression and censorship of the Midwest to pursue a career in New York, despite the famine and poverty of the overpopulated East Coast

Paperback:

9780786711222 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, February 1, 2003), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A powerful, bizarre vision of the future imagines a device called 'The Symphonette' that allows humans to take flight through cyberspace, thus freeing themselves from the harsh realities of life in the real world.

9780553250763 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, April 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leaves behind the repression and censorship of the Midwest to pursue a career in New York, despite the famine and poverty of the overpopulated East Coast

Terrarium

Product Description: This imaginative excursion into the futureâwhere humanity has abandoned the outdoors for a network of cities sealed against all of natureâshows us the perils of separating ourselves from the environment.

By Scott R. Sanders

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780253329561 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1996), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This imaginative excursion into the futureâwhere humanity has abandoned the outdoors for a network of cities sealed against all of natureâshows us the perils of separating ourselves from the environment.

Paperback:

9780812553802 | Tor Books, September 1, 1985, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A small group of malcontents in Oregon City are determined to escape the enclosed world which provides for all of their needs, and explore the wild earth beyond their dome

Stepfather Bank

In a 22nd century world where the Bank owns everything, employs everyone, and governs by means of Credit, Monaghan Burlew scams his way through life without using Credit until the Bank tries to eliminate him and, as a result, ignites a revolution

By David Poyer

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780312006877 | St Martins Pr, July 1, 1987, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: In a 22nd century world where the Bank owns everything, employs everyone, and governs by means of Credit, Monaghan Burlew scams his way through life without using Credit until the Bank tries to eliminate him and, as a result, ignites a revolution

Paperback:

9780312910457 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: In a 22nd century world where the Bank owns everything, employs everyone, and governs by means of Credit, Monaghan Burlew scams his way through life without using Credit until the Bank tries to eliminate him and, as a result, ignites a revolution

Drowning Towers

In the year 2041, young Francis Conway learns about an impending water disaster that has been spawned by government corruption and is threatening life on the overcrowded planet, and he desperately seeks a way to escape. Original.

By George Turner

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781557100382 | Arbor House Pub Co, August 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Centers on a young boy growing up in an overpopulated, highly automated future city that is being threatened by the rising waters of the world's oceans

Paperback:

9780380786015 | Avon Books, December 1, 1996, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In the year 2041, young Francis Conway learns about an impending water disaster that has been spawned by government corruption and is threatening life on the overcrowded planet, and he desperately seeks a way to escape.

Smoke Jumpers

Product Description: By the 21st century, smokers lucky enought to escape the quiche-stained vigilantes who call themselves the Air Police have been pushed into colonies. A spirited satire that turns a personal issue into a national silliness.

By Paul Freeman

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780962750915 | Baskerville Pub, January 1, 1992, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: By the 21st century, smokers lucky enought to escape the quiche-stained vigilantes who call themselves the Air Police have been pushed into colonies.

In the Heart of the Valley of Love

A Japanese-American college student tries to create a normal life for herself in 2052 Los Angeles--a place where water is rationed, disease flourishes, corruption is the rule, and survival takes precedence over everything else (view table of contents)

By Cynthia Kadohata

See complete details on each edition (3 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780670834150 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A Japanese-American college student tries to create a normal life for herself in 2052 Los Angeles--a place where water is rationed, disease flourishes, corruption is the rule, and survival takes precedence over everything else

Paperback:

9780520207288 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr on Demand, April 1, 1997), cover price $28.95

9780140134490 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 1993), cover price $10.00

Beautiful Soup: A Novel for the 21st Century

In a society where people are barcoded to define their social status, James Wander, an A+, has his life turned upside down when a freak accident in a grocery store changes his barcode to that of salt-free pea soup

By Harvey Jabobs

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780963418500 | Celadon Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In a society where people are barcoded to define their social status, James Wander, an A+, has his life turned upside down when a freak accident in a grocery store changes his barcode to that of salt-free pea soup

Why Do Birds

Product Description: It is the early 21st century, and Ed Stone says he's been in suspended animation since the 1930s--put there by aliens who have sent him on a mission: convince the nations of the world to build a massive vault, in which humanity's billions will lie in suspension and survive the Earth's impending destruction...read more

By Damon Knight

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780312851743 | Tor Books, December 1, 1992, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A novel that explores the power of persuasion features the deceitful acts of Ed Stone, who convinces entire nations that he has been chosen to preserve humanity in a massive vault suspended in space

Paperback:

9780312890094 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, July 1, 1994), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: It is the early 21st century, and Ed Stone says he's been in suspended animation since the 1930s--put there by aliens who have sent him on a mission: convince the nations of the world to build a massive vault, in which humanity's billions will lie in suspension and survive the Earth's impending destruction.

The Trial of the Man Who Said He Was God

Product Description: In the form of a trial for blasphemy, Harding's alter ego faces and combats a prosecutor and a series of more or less hostile witnesses. The result is a book that presents the author's core philosophy and practice of "headlessness", expanding it into areas of religiousness and mysticism...read more

By D. E. Harding

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780140193633 | Arkana, May 1, 1993, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In the form of a trial for blasphemy, Harding's alter ego faces and combats a prosecutor and a series of more or less hostile witnesses.

White Queen

Product Description: Winner of the first James Tiptree, Jr.. Memorial Award for SF about gender issues, White Queen is a dazzling vision of an out-of-control future from the author of Divine Endurance.It's 2038. Japan has been destroyed by geologic catastrophe...read more

By Gwyneth Jones

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780312854928 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, June 1, 1993), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When humanoid aliens invade Earth early in the twenty-first century, they claim to desire only a peaceful settlement, but their presence changes the world in disturbing ways

Paperback:

9780312890131 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, November 1, 1994), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Winner of the first James Tiptree, Jr.

In the Cube: A Novel of Future Boston

The Boston of a century from the present serves as the gateway to Earth for aliens and has become a technological marvel where humans and aliens mix, struggling to create a new society while coping with greed, immense wealth, and murder.

By David Alexander Smith

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780312854485 | Tor Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Twenty-first century Boston serves as the gateway to Earth for aliens and has become a technological marvel where humans and aliens mix, struggling to create a new society while coping with greed, immense wealth, and murder

Growing Up Weightless

Talented, imaginative, and self-confident, Matthias Ronay has never known any life but that on the moon, and he clashes with his brilliant politician father, Albin Ronay, in an attempt to change his future. Reprint. NYT.

By John M. Ford

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Paperback:

9780553568141 | Reprint edition (Spectra, August 1, 1994), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Talented, imaginative, and self-confident, Matthias Ronay has never known any life but that on the moon, and he clashes with his brilliant politician father, Albin Ronay, in an attempt to change his future.

9780553373066 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, November 1, 1993, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Talented, imaginative, and self-confident, Matt Ronay has never known any other life but that on the moon, and he clashes with his brilliant politician father, Albin Ronay, in an attempt to change his future

Firedance

Realizing that someone is trying to kill him, hero streetfighter Aubry Knight is drawn toward New Africa while his friends and family members are attacked, and he realizes that he must defeat himself to save his loved ones. Reprint.

By Steven Barnes

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780312850944 | Tor Books, December 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Aubry Knight, raised to be a killer for organized crime, rebels against his upbringing to become a champion for the underdog in Los Angeles

Paperback:

9780812510249 | Reprint edition (Tor Science Fiction, November 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Realizing that someone is trying to kill him, hero streetfighter Aubry Knight is drawn toward New Africa while his friends and family members are attacked, and he realizes that he must defeat himself to save his loved ones.

The Deus Machine: A Novel

In the near future, an unemployed computer expert named Riley must stop the destruction of DEUS, a supercomputer endowed with the ability to improve itself and create life. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

By Pierre Ouellette

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780679424079 | Villard Books, January 1, 1994, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: In the near future, an unemployed computer expert named Riley must stop the destruction of DEUS, a supercomputer endowed with the ability to improve itself and create life

The Josiah Files

Product Description: 2194: The Christian church has been forced underground. Dr. Clave Hammill, a New Age minister, finds a Bible and a pastor's journal from 1995 hidden in an old, boarded-up church. When he turns to Christ, he finds himself pitted against New Age and occultic forces bent on controlling the universe...read more

By Linda Hall

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780785282525 | Thomas Nelson Inc, January 1, 1994, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: 2194: The Christian church has been forced underground.

Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100

Product Description: A collaboration by eight Boston-area science fiction writers, Future Boston is the exciting chronicle of a great city under alien occupation. In the 21st century, the citizens of Boston are planning a new revolution against the governments of Earth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Alexander Smith (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780312855895 | Tor Books, January 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Human, cybernetic, and alien beings all struggle to get rich in a land where anyone's dream can be realized, for a deadly price

Paperback:

9780312890285 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, February 1, 1995), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A collaboration by eight Boston-area science fiction writers, Future Boston is the exciting chronicle of a great city under alien occupation.

The Empire of Ice

An undersea volcano south of Iceland bursts to the surface of the ocean, blocking the North Atlantic current that warms the shores of Europe, freezing the Irish Sea and the English Channel, and laying the groundwork for a fascist plot. Reprint. LJ.

By Richard Moran

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780312855277 | Forge, February 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: As they battle to hold onto some semblance of personal power, politicians cover up the imminent eruption of R-9--a fiery volcano growing out of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge--a catastrophe that could plunge Europe into a new Ice Age

Paperback:

9780812530094 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, February 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: An undersea volcano south of Iceland bursts to the surface of the ocean, blocking the North Atlantic current that warms the shores of Europe, freezing the Irish Sea and the English Channel, and laying the groundwork for a fascist plot.

Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042 : A Four-Part Invention

Basing their projections on technological, scientific, environmental, and biomedical forecasts, four leading science fiction authors--Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield--offer unique, vastly different views of the future. Reprint.

By Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle and Charles Sheffield

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780688131739 | William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield share stories and essays that speculate on what the world will be like fifty years from now and discuss the sociological and technological implications of their expectations

Paperback:

9780380718863 | Avon Books, February 1, 1995, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Based on technological and scientific forecasts, four science fiction authors--Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield--offer their views of the future

Tonguing the Zeitgeist

Product Description: So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star? In a future that isn't distant enough, you'll have to sell your soul to MTV just to pick up a guitar. And then they start carving you up, making you over in the mega-media image of glitter and bone...read more

By Lance Olsen

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781882633043 | Permeable Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star?

Queens Have Died Young and Fair: A Fable of the Immediate Future

By James Kirkup

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780720608861 | Peter Owen Ltd, June 1, 1994, cover price $16.95

Virtual Light

In 2005, in a California divided along seismic fault lines of power and wealth, ex-cop Berry Rydell is assigned to track down a young thief, who has stolen a valuable technological prototype, through a maze of virtual reality. Book available.

By William Gibson

See complete details on each edition (4 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780553074994 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In 2005, in two Californias divided along seismic fault lines of power and wealth, ex-cop Berry Rydell is assigned to track people down through a maze of Virtual Reality

Paperback:

9780553566062 | Reissue edition (Spectra, August 1, 1994), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: In 2005, in two Californias divided along seismic fault lines of power and wealth, ex-cop Berry Rydell is assigned to track people down through a maze of Virtual Reality

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780553472752 | Bantam Audio, August 1, 1994, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In 2005, in two Californias divided along seismic fault lines of power and wealth, ex-cop Berry Rydell is assigned to track people down through a maze of virtual reality.

Prebinding:

9781417672103 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 1994, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasyÂ Â sister-states of what used to be California.

Millennium's Dawn

A Christian journalist seeks the answers to a puzzling situation in the troubled days at the beginning of the twenty-first century when the world stands at the brink of Armageddon

By Ed Stewart

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781564763457 | Victor Books, July 1, 1994, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: A Christian journalist seeks the answers to a puzzling situation in the troubled days at the beginning of the twenty-first century when the world stands at the brink of Armageddon

Jupiter's Daughter

The birth of Genevieve Stewart, a perfect child gifted with extraordinary intelligence, strength, beauty, and intuition, sets off an international competiton to discover the secret of her remarkable talents, and only Genny holds the key to her ultimate survival. Reprint. PW.

By Tom Hyman

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780670841165 | Viking Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Subjecting his unwitting wife to a revolutionary gene experiment, billionaire Dalton Stewart induces the turn-of-the-millennia birth of the first Superbeing, a girl whose 'extra' genes give her extraordinary powers and make her an international target

Paperback:

9780451406248 | Reprint edition (Onyx Books, September 1, 1995), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Subjecting his unwitting wife to a revolutionary gene experiment, billionaire Dalton Stewart induces the turn-of-the-millennium birth of the first superbeing, a girl whose 'extra' genes give her extraordinary powers and make her an international target

Full Moon over America

In 2001, following the abolishment of the Electoral College and subsequent election of Willy Mackenzie, America's youngest and most radical president ever, an eccentric tale recounts Willy's ancestry and the impact of the American press on the course of history.

By Thomas William Simpson

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780446518086 | Grand Central Pub, August 1, 1994, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: In 2001, following the abolishment of the Electoral College and subsequent election of Willy Mackenzie, America's youngest and most radical president ever, an eccentric tale recounts Willy's ancestry and the impact of the American press on the course of history

Arc Light

A political thriller by a military expert with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Russian military describes an accidental nuclear holocaust that erupts between Russia and the United States. Reprint. NYT.

By Eric L. Harry

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780671880484 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A political thriller by a military expert with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Russian military describes an accidental nuclear war between Russia and the United States near the end of this century

Paperback:

9780515117929 | Reprint edition (Jove Pubns, February 1, 1996), cover price $6.99 | also contains The Human Face of Ambient Intelligence: Cognitive, Emotional, Affective, Behavioral and Conversational Aspects | About this edition: A political thriller by a military expert with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Russian military describes an accidental nuclear holocaust that erupts between Russia and the United States.

at beginning | displaying 1 to 25 | next 25 >