Here's where you'll find:

• free signed bookplates
• rare hardcovers of my fiction for sale
• advice for obtaining autographs on paperback novels
• nonfiction for sale
• t-shirts and other items for sale (by fans!)
• ordering information

I've taken to passing out signed bookplates at some of my speeches and special appearances. I have a few extras on hand for Kiln People, Contacting Aliens and The Life Eaters.

While supplies last, I'll provide signed bookplates as free gifts to anyone who sends a self-addressed stamped envelope (a letter-sized #10 envelope will do) -- plus a photocopy-receipt for a recent donation (of any size) to the March of Dimes, Project Witness, the Heifer Project or the Sierra Club... or some equivalent charity... or else a receipt from a recent blood donation.

To learn more about editions of my books that are currently in print, go to science fiction or nonfiction and click on the appropriate title.

The rare hardcover editions of my novels I'm currently selling are:

• Earth $ 20.00 (1st edition) Read sample chapters of Earth.

• Glory Season $ 20.00 (1st) Read sample chapters of Glory Season.

• The Postman $ 120.00 (rare 1st) Read sample chapters of The Postman.

• Brightness Reef $ 37.00 (rare 1st) Read sample chapters of Brightness Reef.

• Heaven's Reach $ 20.00 Read sample chapters of Heaven's Reach.

• Foundation's Triumph $ 15.00 Read sample chapters of Foundation's Triumph.

• Heart of the Comet $ 25.00 signed by both authors; $ 15.00 signed by just one. (I just came across a stash of hard-to-find hardcovers from this collaboration with Gregory Benford that the Chicago Tribune called the "masterpiece of the hard SF movement.") Read sample chapters of Heart of the Comet.

• Kiln People $ 15.00 Read sample chapters of Kiln People.

• Infinity's Shore $ 6.00 each! (That's less than the paperback edition in stores! $ 4.00 each for orders of ten or more!) Read sample chapters of Infinity's Shore.

Earth is on acid-free paper with sewn bindings, a lovely collectable edition. The others all come on acid-free paper. All titles are hard to find. All are 1st printings in fine condition. Click here or email me for ordering details.

If you need a signed paperback to fill out your collection, first try buying through your local store, then checking my events & appearances page to see when I'll be appearing in your area.

If you can't make it to an appearance, you can purchase the book from your local bookstore (see the science fiction page for online ordering information) and mail it to me, enclosing a SASE so I can return it. See ordering information below for the mailing address.

You can purchase signed copies from me directly. But to keep from becoming an online bookstore, I'm charging $ 10.00 each -- plus postage. Of course the envelope and return postage you'll need are smaller than for hardcovers. Click here or email me for ordering details.

My first story collection, The River of Time, is only available in the U.S. by ordering through me or through specialty booksellers.

Click over to biography for a list of everything I've published. Or visit science fiction for a list of my novels or my nonficiton book, The Transparent Society.

I currently have two nonfiction books for sale:

• The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? (hardcover) $ 35.00 (the trade paperback -- $ 15.00 -- is currently available in bookstores or through this site, or read Chapter One of The Transparent Society).

• Extraterrestrial Civilization (a book of reprints of scholarly articles about the search for intelligent life in the universe), edited by Thomas Kuiper & David Brin, contains the classic review article on the science of alien life by David Brin (large format softcover, very rare, $ 150.00).

Click here or Email me for ordering details.

Fan Steve Sloan has opened the Sloan3D online store, which sells shirts, hats, mugs, posters, and other merchandise inspired by the Uplift novels, Kiln People, and my other science fiction works. The merchandise is illustrated by Steve Sloan, using a variety of 2D and 3D techniques.

If making a purchase, please enclose a check or money order in U.S. currency for the amount of purchase, along with a brief note specifying which book you are ordering.

A payment method that is fast becoming popular is PayPal instead of a personal check. (This may be essential if you are ordering from outside the U.S.) Please verify your price calculations with me by email, first, and I will give you the PayPal account address. Although this will get payment out of the way efficiently, you must still send me by regular mail a return address label and a paper reminder, setting down which books you've paid for, when, and how they should be signed. I don't make money off any of this, so it's only right to make this service as convenient to me as possible.

With a purchase request or a request for signature, please include a separate self-addressed, padded envelope or box with appropriate and sufficient postage for the total number of hardcovers desired or paperbacks sent. Please affix the stamps to the return envelope! Postage to locales outside the US will be larger, of course, and will require international postal coupons.

Hardcovers generally measure just under 7x10x3 inches and require about $5.00 postage per volume. The envelope and return postage you'll need for paperbacks will be smaller. To determine whether the envelope will fit, experiment at home before shipping the package to me. If you have any doubt about the amount of postage needed, visit your local Post Office for advice.

If you have a special request for a (brief) dedication, please enclose it, as well.