num_pages: 387
description: 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.The Sea and Summer, published in the U.S. as The Drowning Towers is George Turner's masterful exploration of the effects of climate change in the not-too-distant future. Comparable to J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World, it was shortlisted for the Nebula and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award.Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1988.
language: English
title: Drowning Towers
titlecomplete: Drowning Towers
genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Climate Change, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Climate Change Fiction, Australia, Novels
ratings_count: 907
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South East Asia and Pacific
publisher: Avon Books