Near-Future Speculative Fiction
Explore our curated list of near-future speculative fiction books. Discover gripping tales of tomorrow’s possibilities, from dystopian societies to advanced tech. Find your next futuristic read today!
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The Winter of Visions and Forgetting
by Jack Birnbaum
In the bitterly cold winter of 2008, Dr. Daniel Newman is still coming to terms with the loss of his wife in the horrific “events” that struck New York City three years before. Now his brilliant but troubled eleven-year-old niece Kate is developing a strange collection of symptoms. Daniel’s efforts to find the cause of her affliction in time to save her life will lead him into a struggle against a government that has its own terrible secrets to protect, to the promise of a new love, and eventually to a confrontation with the twin darkness’s of an unimaginable manmade hell and his own memories. Filled with unexpected humor, fascinating scientific speculations and memorable characters, The Winter of Visions and Forgetting is a frighteningly prophetic and emotionally powerful novel of our near future. And a warning to us all.
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The 37th Amendment
by Susan Shelley
Ted Braden is just trying to collect on a basketball bet when he telephones a fellow Lakers fan one night. That phone call makes him a witness in a sensational murder trial and launches him into a dangerous battle with the California criminal justice system-the year is 2056, forty years after the 37th Amendment has removed "due process of law" from the United States Constitution. Join Ted as his calm world is rocked by an angry girlfriend, a beautiful prosecutor, and an eminent defense attorney who has had enough of a legal system tilted against defendants. Then meet someone who has a different view. A wild ride through a surprising future, The 37th Amendment is a startling look at what our society has given up to crime, what we might do about it, and what the next generation might think of our choices. This remarkable novel includes an appendix that tells the true story of "How the First Amendment Came to Protect Topless Dancing." You'll never look at the U.S. Supreme Court the same way again.
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Jennifer Government
by Max Barry
In Barry's twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations and employees take the last names of the companies they work for. Hot on the trail of John Nike, an executive from the land of Marketing, is agent Jennifer Government, the consumer watchdog from hell.
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Nature's End
by Whitley Strieber
A handful of Americans fight a terrifying worldwide movement to depopulate earth that is on the brink of environmental collapse.
