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The Sea and Summer

(1987)
(Drowning Towers)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1988 Arthur C. Clarke Award
1988 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee)
1988 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee)
1988 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee)

Francis Conway is Swill--one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill homes into watery tombs. And now the young boy must find a way to escape the approaching tide of disaster.


Genre: Science Fiction

Praise for this book

"The best didactic novel since the dispossessed." - Joe Haldeman

"His most powerful novel...George Turner belongs to the world." - Gene Wolfe


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