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The Sea and Summer
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The Sea and Summer
The ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD-winning novel of climate change in the not-too-distant future.
The ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD-winning novel of climate change in the not-too-distant future.
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Francis Conway is Swill - one of the 90% in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. A young boy growing up in a challenging world, life is already difficult and rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness, and nature have 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.
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ISBN: 9780575118690
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 March 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Gollancz
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 276g
Pages: 384
About the Author
George Turner (1916-1997)
George Reginald Turner 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.More from Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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