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George Turner
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The Drowning Towers

Product details

  • ISBN 9780575118690
  • Weight: 276g
  • Dimensions: 131 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Mar 2013
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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"His most powerful novel ... George Turner belongs to the world" - Gene Wolfe

"The best didactic novel I've read since The Dispossessed" - Joe Haldeman

"This book still sticks within my memory more than a decade after reading it" - Goodreads Reviewer

Francis Conway is Swill - one of the 90%. Swill must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. In the year 2041, life is already difficult and is rapidly becoming impossible for young Francis and his people. Government corruption, wilful ignorance, and the natural world have all conspired to turn Swill homes into watery tombs. Now the young boy must find a way to escape the approaching tide of disaster.

THE SEA AND SUMMER, published in the US as THE DROWNING TOWERS, is George Turner's masterful exploration of the effects of climate change in the not-too-distant future. Comparable to J.G. Ballard's THE DROWNED WORLD, it was shortlisted for the NEBULA AWARD and won the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD.
About George Turner
George Reginald Turner (1916-1997) was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. His mainstream novel, THE CUPBOARD UNDER THE STAIRS won the MILES FRANKLIN AWARD, Australia's highest literary honour. His best-known SF novel, THE DROWNING TOWERS, was published in the UK under the title THE SEA AND SUMMER, and won the second ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD in 1988. George Turner was named as a Guest of Honour for the 1999 World Science Fiction Convention held in his home town of Melbourne, but died before the event.

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