The Wild Shore

2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive. But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that might have been, and might yet be–and dreams of playing a crucial role in America’s rebirth.

The Wild Shore is the first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias Trilogy.

The Man Who Melted

The Man Who Melted is a warning for the future. It is the Brave New World and 1984 for our time, for it gives us a glimpse into our own future — a future ruled by corporations that control deadly and powerful forms of mass manipulation. It is a prediction of what could happen…tomorrow. The Man Who Melted examines how technology affects us and changes our morality, and it questions how we might remain human in an inhuman world. Will the future disenfranchise or empower the individual? Here you’ll find new forms of sexuality, new perversions, new epiphanies, and an entirely new form of consciousness.

Would you pay to “go down” with the Titanic?

In this dystopia the Titanic is brought back from the bottom of the sea and refurbished, only to be sunk again for those who want the ultimate decadent experience. Some passengers pay to commit suicide by “going under” with the ship.

Job: A Comedy of Justice

After he firewalked in Polynesia, the world wasn’t the same for Alexander Hergensheimer, now called Alec Graham. As natural accidents occurred without cease, Alex knew Armageddon and the Day of Judgement were near. Somehow he had to bring his beloved heathen, Margrethe, to a state of grace, and, while he was at it, save the rest of the world ….

The Integral Trees

n the far future, the crew of an interstellar expedition abandoned the main spacecraft, which housed an AI who monitored the crew for the all-powerful State. The “mutineers”, as the AI calls them, made a new home in a gas torus that rotates around a neutron star, rich in trees, animals, sufficient water, but no real gravity. Five hundred years later, their descendants live in various, sometimes waring, clans.

A scouting expedition by men and women from one of these groups meets with hardships and enforced servitude. A revolt ensues. And all the time, the AI of the original ship, observes and waits…

“Niven has come up with an idea about as far out as one can get, a created world without a world. . . . This is certainly classic science fiction.”
– Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine

“The best work yet by one of the best in our business, The Integral Trees is the most imaginative work I’ve seen in the last five years.”
– Jerry Pournelle

“Niven’s masterly use of SF strategies once more hits every note, springing surprises and plot turns with dizzying pace. The bizarre but plausible setting is meticulously worked out and at times lyrically evoked … Niven, one of the princes of ‘hard’ sf, appeals to the aficionado’s delight in working out a basic premise with rigor, yet with unforeseen angles.”
– Gregory Benford, The Los Angeles Times

“… The concept of a human society evolved to inhabit a free-fall environment remains in clear focus; The Integral Trees is a convincing piece of environmental engineering by one of the masters of the art.”
– Newsday

The plot and characters “combine with the happily mind-boggling and original premise to make this marvelous, sense-of-wonder, hardcore SF that’s sure to be popular.”
– Publishers Weekly