George Turner (1) (1916–1997)
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Werke von George Turner
In a Petri Dish Upstairs 9 Exemplare
Flowering Mandrake {novelette} 6 Exemplare
Not in Front of the Children 3 Exemplare
Shut the Door When You Go Out 3 Exemplare
The Fittest 3 Exemplare
Scobie 3 Exemplare
And Now Doth Time Waste Me 2 Exemplare
Feedback 2 Exemplare
On the Nursery Floor 2 Exemplare
A Pursuit of Miracles [short story] 2 Exemplare
Generation Gap 1 Exemplar
A waste of shame 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
The Best of the Rest 1990: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Small Press (1992) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Turner, George
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Turner, George Reginald
- Geburtstag
- 1916-10-16
- Todestag
- 1997-06-08
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Australia
- Geburtsort
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sterbeort
- Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- A. Bertram Chandler Memorial Award (1994)
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Each story has a short intro by the author, which give some useful context, as well as the strong indication that short fiction was not Turner's strength.
The last story, "The Fittest", starts in 2023, where the climate crisis has wreaked more havoc than we see today, but is still a chilling forcast as to what might happen (the forecasting of 60m of sea level rise, which has not yet happened, but which I think appears in the novel derived from this -- The Drowning Towers--being higher than the more recent forecasts I've seen).
Overall: Turner's writing is good, the plots are mediocre, the world building is good, and the characters are all horrible people.… (mehr)