The Sea and Summer (Hardcover)

by George Turner (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Faber & Faber; First Edition edition (June 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0571148468
• ISBN-13: 978-0571148462
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,160,489 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Australian SF Reader, July 31, 2007

By	Blue Tyson "- http://freesf.blogspot.com" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sea and Summer (Paperback)

A really interesting look at our current society falling apart due to the weather, etc. For a pleasant change, not set in 'ho-hum, not New York again, who the hell cares about there for the nth time', but in Melbourne. The characters seem real.

After a woman loses her job, and her husband, she tries to get by. One honorable man tries to organise people to help each other out.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bleak future, April 27, 2003

By	Ahmed Rizk (Alaexandria, Egypt) - See all my reviews

This novel pictures a world facing the rising sea with the resulting decline of the land mass. It based in the middle of the 21st century Australia. The unemployed form more than half the population and they are massed in specially built high rise towers and kept there by the police and the army. The story traces the fall of a family from sweet (i.e. employed with reasonable income) into the hell of unemployment.
the story from the viewpoint of four main characters and more minor ones. While this may seem confusing at first, the author managed to turn this into an interesting way of examining different personalities each with its own selfish motive and self centered view of the world. this one of the best novels of what I call "Future fiction" as opposed to authentic science fiction

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be compulsory reading, July 11, 2003

By	Sarah "sarah_m804" (Sydney Australia) - See all my reviews

This book is fantastic - and a warning. Reading it, you can feel the heat, the claustrophobia, the hopelessness of life on the fringes and the rising sea lapping at the doorstep. The scary thing is, the writing's on the wall. Global warming is still a threat, huge multi-story pack-em-in apartment blocks are going up in the middle of cities everywhere, the gap between the haves and have nots is rising, and everybody's looking away. It's just a little harder to look away after reading this.
If you like this book, seek out Brunner's "Sheep look up",