George Turner (writer)

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George Reginald Turner (born October 8, 1916 in Melbourne , † June 8, 1997 in Ballarat ), an Australian writer and critic , became known through science fiction novels, which he - for a science fiction author - was relatively late wrote in his life.

Life

Turner completed his school days in Victoria . During World War II he served in the Australian Imperial Force . After that he had various jobs to write on the side. His first science fiction story appeared in 1978 when he was over 60 years old. At this point he was already successful as a critic and novelist. B. 1962 a Miles Franklin Award for The Cupboard Under the Stairs was given. In the 1960s he also appeared as a critic of science fiction literature for the Australian Science Fiction Review , The Melbourne Age and Foundation .

Turner's science fiction narratives are distinguished by their detailed extrapolation and serious approach to moral and social issues. In novels such as The Sea and Summer and Genetic Soldier , he describes a gloomy vision of the future as a consequence of global warming. The first novel won an Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1988 . Many of his works appear very Australian and sometimes contain references to the Australian natives, the Aborigines .

Awards

  • 1962: Miles Franklin Award for the novel The Cupboard Under the Stairs
  • 1976: William Atheling Jr. Award for Paradigm and Pattern: Form and Meaning in The Dispossessed
  • 1977: William Atheling Jr. Award for The And Great Whales Created God
  • 1979: Ditmar Award for the novel Beloved Son
  • 1981: William Atheling Jr. Award for Samuel Delany: Victim of Great Applause
  • 1981: William Atheling Jr. Award for Frederik Pohl as a Creator of Future Societies
  • 1984: Ditmar Award for the novel Yesterday's Men
  • 1985: William Atheling Jr. Award for In the Heart or in the Head: An Essay In Time Travel
  • 1986: William Atheling Jr. Award for Neuromancer
  • 1988: Arthur C. Clarke Award for the novel The Sea and Summer
  • 1988: Commonwealth Writers' Prize , South-East Asia and South Pacific Region for The Sea and Summer as best book
  • 1994: A. Bertram Chandler Memorial Award
  • 1994: Ditmar Award for the novel The Destiny Makers

bibliography

Ethical Culture (series of novels)
  • 1 Beloved Son (1978)
  • 2 Vaneglory (1981)
  • 3 Yesterday's Men (1983)
Novels
  • Young Man of Talent (1959, also called Scobie )
  • A Stranger and Afraid (1961)
  • The Cupboard Under the Stairs (1962)
  • A Waste of Shame (1965)
  • The Lame Dog Man (1967)
  • Transit of Cassidy (1978)
  • The Sea and Summer (1987, also as Drowning Towers , 1988)
    • German: Summer in the greenhouse . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-518-38322-1 .
  • Brain Child (1991)
  • The Destiny Makers (1993)
  • Genetic Soldier (1994)
  • Down There in Darkness (1999)
collection
  • A Pursuit of Miracles (1990)
Short stories
  • In a Petri Dish Upstairs (1978)
  • A Pursuit of Miracles (1982)
  • Feedback (1983)
  • On the Nursery Floor (1985)
  • The Fittest (1985)
  • Shut the Door When You Go Out (1986)
  • Not in Front of the Children (1987)
    • German: Not in front of the children. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The true teaching - after Mickymaus. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4747, 1991, ISBN 3-453-04487-8 .
  • Generation Gap (1990)
  • I Still Call Australia Home (1990)
  • Worlds (1991)
  • Flowering Mandrake (1994)
  • And Now Doth Time Waste Me (1998)
Autobiography
  • In The Heart Or In The Head: An Essay In Time Travel , 1984 (autobiography)
  • Off-Cuts (1986)
as editor
  • The view from the edge . 1977

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Turner's life data on Spacelight, the Library of Fantasy & Science Fiction (English)
  2. ^ The Miles Franklin Award
  3. ↑ George Turner on the Arthur C. Clarke Awards Official Website
personal data
SURNAME Turner, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turner, George Reginald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer and critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1997
Place of death Ballarat