George Turner : a life
"George Turner is one of the few Australian writers who can boast an established international readership. He is by far the most important science fiction writer Australia has produced." "Turner won the Miles Franklin Award (1962) for The Cupboard Under the Stairs. In his autobiography In the Heart or in the Head: An Essay in Time Travel (1984), he articulated passionate ideas about the important moral purposes of science fiction. His most critically acclaimed novel, The Sea and Summer (1987), winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Fiction, extends the theme of human culpability for world disaster." "Turner's writing is always centred on the problem of what it means to be human. His plots are frequently pacy, his characters are turbulent and often violent, and the action can be passionate and cruel. The futuristic worlds he creates are remarkably intricate, shaped by his own concerns about over-population and destructive pollution." "Turner died in 1997, at the age of eighty, just as Judith Buckrich's manuscript was completed. In this first biography of a complex and difficult man, she explores the many facets of Turner's life and work, illuminating his own character traits through those of the characters he invented and offering critical insights."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Vic., 1999