George Turner

Las gigantescas torres ruinosas y abandonadas que se elevan hacia el cielo en los aledaños de la Melbourne de un futuro lejano son el último testimonio de una civilización que se autodestruyó a mediados del siglo XXI. Un brillante hombre de teatro pretende reconstruir lo que pudo ser la vida humana en aquellos ya lejanos años de convulsiones sociales, trastornos climáticos, superpoblación, carestía e irremediables crisis. Al hacerlo descubrirá nuestro mundo y el de nuestros hijos, el mismo que los habitantes de estas primeras décadas del siglo XXI estamos destruyendo con una extraña mezcla de saña, codicia y estupidez. El círculo vicioso está hoy a punto de cerrarse: faltan sólo unos años.

"""En Melbourne se han construido viviendas de hasta setenta pisos de altura que apiñan a setenta mil personas por bloque. Por torre. La preocupante cifra se suma al retroceso del río Yarra, en parte engullido por las aguas de un mar medrante que inunda las zonas mas proximas a al costa.... Dicen que Las torres del olvido es una novela de ciencia ficcion. Algunos la distinguen como la primera del subgenero ""cambio climatico"". Son formas de hablar sobre una obra que anticipo con inquietante exactitud el mundo que esta llamando a nuestra puerta"". - Gabi Martinez."

"Si George Turner lo publicó en 1987 y su propuesta continúa tan vigente, será porque se trata de un clásico. Dicen que Las torres del olvido es una novela de ciencia ficción. Algunas etiquetas la distinguen como la primera gran novela del subgenero cambio climatico. Son formas de hablar sobre una obra que anticipo con inquietante exactitud el mundo que esta llamando a nuestra puerta." Gabi Martinez

Eight journeys into the future from this prize-winning author: a civilized society where barbarism is the norm; a search for super-intelligence that goes horribly wrong; a world where to be Non-Legal is to be non-human; an experiment to test the very nature of reality. Contains:A Pursuit of MiraclesNot in Front of the ChildrenFeedbackShut the Door When You Go OutOn the Nursery FloorIn a Petri Dish UpstairsGeneration GapThe Fittest

In the Heart or in the Head is a brilliant literary memoir in which George Turner chronicles his chaotic growing-up in a family for whom fact and fantasy were equally acceptable and often indistinguishable. It is also the record of his development as one of Australias finest novelists and his entanglement with science fiction.

Two men, one of them a policeman, are investigating a death involving a large international genetic engineering corporation. They become bothersome to the corporate owners and are taken out of action - not by being killed, but by being put to sleep for hundreds of years. But this may be a fate worse than death.They awaken to a distant future in which contemporary industrial civilization has been "cleansed" from the earth and what humanity survives is learning to live a very low-technology lifestyle, being bred eugenically to this life. This cleaning was done on purpose, an international plot by the rich and powerful who in fact rule the world - and who, in this distant future, are dying off.This is a complex and morally tortuous vision, and Turners characters find it nearly impossible to adapt without killing someone, perhaps even themselves.

David Chance has been raised in an orphanage and, now an adult, finds that he is the child of a man genetically modified before birth by a group of scientists experimenting in increasing human intelligence and creativity. But his father is dead.He pursues the search for the true nature of his father and, through it, the true nature of the experiments and the survivors of the final disaster that ended them. Chance exposes his roots and finds them entangled in horror, deceit, vengeance and perverse scientific illumination. Peace and self knowledge are achieved only at great risk and terrible cost.

Beloved Son told how the world was given atomic power and chose the atom bomb, was given the key to genetic miracles and chose biological warfare.The world was lucky the first time; enough of it remained for salvaging in a few decades. It was simply unfortunate that in those difficult years a new menace arose-the offer of dreams-come-true in this world, here and now. There was a price of course. What World Council could not realize-and did not properly query-was the immensity of the price, but the offer was one nobody in his right mind could refuse. Or could he?Psychiatrist James Lindley recognized the danger of dealing with the Devil but fanatical Police Controller Parker saw it as the Gift of God; Angus, whose name and face changed as often as his coat, saw it as a fine game to be played, while Commissioner Ferendija saw it as an exercise in pragmatism-and Security Tech Sanders lost everything he believed in as the welter of guilt and disillusionment swallowed him whole.Under the pressure of decision the cracks showed in the highest echelons of the proud Ethical Culture. Is there a benefit so great that, if the price were the end of homo sapiens, we would pay it?George Turners Beloved Son was the first volume in what is now recognized as on of the outstanding science fiction achievements of the past decade. Vaneglory is its successor; and, though completely self-contained, it develops with gripping imaginative brilliance the characters and situations already established in Beloved Son.

An experiment recreating the mind-set of World War II escalates into an actual battleground between native revolutionaries and space colonists bent on subverting the power of the central government. In the midst of this turmoil, a physically enhanced agent questions his upbringing and training.

In a distant future, on an Earth populated by a scant few hundred thousand humans, the Atkinss Thomas performs without question the duties for which he was genetically bred. Called "Soldier" by one and all, he is a man of honor and ability, responsible for keeping the peace, for maintaining the status quo . . . and, most important, for guarding the great Book House on the hill - a vast repository of Last Culture knowledge presided over by Libary, Soldiers mentor, the most senior of the mystic Celibate scholars. Such is Thomass life in the serene, semi-primitive world without nations and cities and governments - until the night the starship comes home. Having fled a dangerously overcrowded Earth years before the Collapse and the Twilight that followed, for seven centuries the men and women of the space-going vessel Search have been combing the galaxy for inhabitable planets - their aging processes dramatically slowed by the relative magic of light speed travel and cryogenic sleep. And now, lonely and frustrated, the weary voyagers have returned to a homeworld unrecognizably altered by the relentless tides of time - a world that does not want them back. A bitter welcome awaits the Searchers, as old Libary gathers Earths Ordinands and Elders together to tap the terrifying power of the collective unconscious - in preparation of the Carnival night when they will sweep the helpless intruders back to their lonely sky in the name of Holy Science. And it is Soldier who stands in the middle, silent and alone - bound by duty to evict the homesick star-travelers . . . yet cursed by a preordained genetic destiny that has decreed their eviction will mean Soldiers death.

Forty years after his starship escapes from an apocalyptic Earth, Commander Albert Raft and his crew return to a much younger and violent Earth society that wants to embrace Raft as a god because of

In the era of "the big squeeze" - when an environmentally ravaged Earth groans beneath the weight of twelve billion people - two men control the destiny of humankind. One was recently senile...the other is going insane.In the year 2069, with the Earths population dangerously out of control, procreation and the medical treatment of terminal illness are the two most heinous crimes against society. But behind the doors of the top secret Biophysical Institute, an old man has been illegally cured of the ravages of Alzheimers disease and made artificially younger - to serve the unspecified purposes of Premier Jeremy Beltane, one of the worlds most powerful leaders. A member of the underprivileged "Wardie" class, Detective Sergeant Harry Ostrov has been assigned to serve as a guardian to the mysteriously rejuvenated nonagenarian - and entrusted with a devastating secret that could topple the unstable "Minder" government. But once within the confines of the Beltane family enclave, the dedicated police officer is dragged deeper and deeper into a lethal mire of scandal, corruption, political outrage, and moral dilemma - sworn to silence even as he observes his nations ruler, a man ultimately responsible for the future of civilization, descend steadily into depression, uncertainty . . . and madness.

Les glaces des pôles ont fondu et les eaux ont fini par envahir une partie des terres. En 2041, les dix milliards d’habitants de la planète sont divisés en deux castes : les Stables, plutôt aisés, et

Una novela visionaria sobre el cambio climático. Una visión profética, y desencantada, de la sociedad futura.Australia. Las gigantescas torres ruinosas y abandonadas que se elevan hacia el cielo en los aledaños de la Melbourne de un futuro lejano son el ultimo testimonio de una civilizacion que se autodestruyo a mediados del siglo XXI.Un brillante hombre de teatro pretende reconstruir lo que pudo ser la vida humana en aquellos ya lejanos años de convulsiones sociales, trastornos climaticos, superpoblacion, carestia e irremediables crisis.Al hacerlo descubrira nuestro mundo y el de nuestros hijos, el mismo que los habitantes de estas primeras decadas del siglo XXI estamos destruyendo con una extraña mezcla de saña, codicia y estupidez.El circulo vicioso esta hoy a punto de cerrarse: faltan solo unos años.Discipulo aventajado de George Orwell, George Turner demostro ser un maestro de la corriente de anticipacion cientifica llamada NearFuture (futuro cercano), como lo prueba el premio Arthur C. Clarke que le fue otorgado en 1988 por Las torres del olvido.

"His most powerful novel ... George Turner belongs to the world" - Gene Wolfe"The best didactic novel Ive read since The Dispossessed" - Joe Haldeman"This book still sticks within my memory more than a decade after reading it" - Goodreads ReviewerFrancis 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 Turners masterful exploration of the effects of climate change in the not-too-distant future. Comparable to J.G. Ballards THE DROWNED WORLD, it was shortlisted for the NEBULA AWARD and won the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD.

L'efecte hivernacle aboca la humanitat al col·lapse l'any 2041. Amb una calor i un nivell del mar que creixen de manera implacable, el món està sumit en una irremeiable crisi de producció d'aliments. L'escalafó més baix de la societat l'ocupen multituds de desposseïts -els "infra", menyspreats i temuts pels de la classe acomodada, els "supra"- confinats en guetos establerts en edificis enormes, torres gegantines a primera línia de la costa. La família del jove Francis Conway cau en desgràcia i tot i pertànyer als supra passa a formar part d'aquesta classe social gairebé indigent. A més dels seus esforços diaris de supervivència en el seu nou entorn, hauran d'afrontar la sort que els poderosos reserven als habitants d'aquestes grans torres destinades a l'oblit.

Una novela visionaria sobre el cambio clim#tico. Una visi#n prof#tica, y desencantada, de la sociedad futura. Australia. Las gigantescas torres ruinosas y abandonadas que se elevan hacia el cielo en los aleda#os de la Melbourne de un futuro lejano son el #ltimo testimonio de una civilizaci#n que se autodestruy# a mediados del siglo XXI. Un brillante hombre de teatro pretende reconstruir lo que pudo ser la vida humana en aquellos ya lejanos a#os de convulsiones sociales, trastornos clim#ticos, superpoblaci#n, carest#a e irremediables crisis. Al hacerlo descubrir# nuestro mundo y el de nuestros hijos, el mismo que los habitantes de estas primeras d#cadas del siglo XXI estamos destruyendo con una extra#a mezcla de sa#a, codicia y estupidez. El c#rculo vicioso est# hoy a punto de cerrarse: faltan s#lo unos a#os. Disc#pulo aventajado de George Orwell, George Turner demostr# ser un maestro de la corriente de anticipaci#n cient#fica llamada Near Future (futuro cercano), como lo prueba el premio Arthur C. Clarke que le fue otorgado en 1988 por Las torres del olvido.