Drowning Towers
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- Synopsis
- From the book jacket: Drowning Towers is a bildungsroman, the story of a young boy growing up in a future city that is overpopulated, automated to the point where only the privileged have jobs and decent housing, and being progressively flooded by the rising waters of the world's oceans-a process that brings chaotic weather and worldwide food shortages. This is the gripping, intense, sometimes violent story of life in the face of a long, slow disaster. The novel of the future is becoming a powerful form in the hands of serious writers. Such a book was Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, last year's Arthur C. Clarke winner. Drowning Towers is a masterful novel of character and of SF extrapolation in direct descent from Huxley's Brave New World. Turner's achievement is now of historic magnitude. George Turner's Beloved Son was named one of the five best science fiction novels of the year in Terry Carr's 1979 Year's Best SF. Now, nearly a decade later, Turner has written a science fiction novel that surpasses his previous achievements, a work that places him securely in the company of the world's greatest science fiction writers: Stanislaw Lem, Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel R. Delany, and their peers. Drowning Towers has just won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in the U.K. in 1987, an award endowed by Clarke only two years ago and now the most important SF prize in England. It may be the SF book of the decade!
- Copyright:
- 1987
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 333 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781557100382
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 07/24/08
- Copyrighted By:
- George Turner
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Submitted By:
- Roger Drewicke
- Proofread By:
- Mary Wells
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.