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BRASYL.
London: Victor Gollancz, 2007. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 2008. 2008 Hugo Award nominee. "Brazil in three times, past, present, and future. All three are dystopian. Northern Ireland author." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
DESOLATION ROAD.
New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1988, i.e. 1987]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof of the first U.S. edition. The author's first novel. "Vivid imagery gives distinction to this tale, in which a large cast of characters indulges in power struggles on the planet Mars. An unusual and poetic first novel ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 96-7. Winner of the 1989 Locus award for best first novel. Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-742.
EVOLUTION'S SHORE.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1995]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback edition. Published in the UK as CHAGA (1995). After a meteorite hits the earth near Mt. Kilimanjaro a alien substance appears and grows, "Chaga," which absorbs organic matter. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-741.
HEARTS HANDS AND VOICES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition.
HEARTS HANDS AND VOICES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page.
KING OF MORNING, QUEEN OF DAY [book and advance page proof copy, two volumes].
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1991], Octavo, two books, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Winner of the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award. Fantasy novel of three multi-generational women.
NECROVILLE.
London: Victor Gollancz, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "McDonald presents a society where nanotechnology has changed everything, including death. A third of the world's population consists of the resurrected dead, forming the majority of the workforce and living in a parallel culture alongside the living, in necrovilles, until the Freedead return from space, having been shipped there as indentured workers, to lead a rebellion." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-744. NECROVILLE, "more concentrated than his previous work, constructs an intensely complicated urban near future world -- cyberpunk imagery of the world-city is utilized with bravado throughout -- in which nanotechnology has accomplished what many -- certainly in the late twentieth century -- felt might be its first transformative change, making it possible for cellular creatures -- like us -- to become immortal. The plot spins this speculation with feverish energy." - Roz Kaveney and John Clute, SFE (online). Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
SPEAKING IN TONGUES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twelve stories, the author's second collection of short fiction.
TERMINAL CAFÉ.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1994, i.e. 1995]. Octavo, frontispiece by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. First hardcover edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by McDonald. Introduction by James Gunn. In the future with the use of nanotechnology death has been eliminated, waiting to be resurrected one lives in a Necroville, working off the debt incurred needed for rebirth. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series.