The novel drew some inspiration from Turner's short story "Shut The Door When You Go Out" which dealt with a similar scenario . George Turner was named as a Guest of Honor for Aussiecon Three, the 1999 World Science Fiction Convention held in Melbourne, but died before the event. In 2013 his The Sea and Summer became the first Australian novel to be included in Gollancz's SF Masterworks list. Bibliography Novels and collections Young Man of Talent [vt Scobie: A Novel] (1959) A Stranger and Afraid (1961) The Cupboard Under the Stairs (1962) A Waste of Shame (1965) The Lame Dog Man (1967) Beloved Son (1978) Transit of Cassidy (1978) Vaneglory (1981) Yesterday's Men (1983) The Sea and Summer (1987) (published in the USA as Drowning Towers in 1988) A Pursuit of Miracles (short story collection) (1990) Brain Child (1991) The Destiny Makers (1993) Genetic Soldier (1994) Down There in Darkness (1999) Anthology The View from the Edge, as editor, (1977) Autobiography In the Heart or in the Head: An Essay in Time Travel, (1984) Biography "George Turner: A Life" by Judith Raphael Buckrich, Melbourne University Press, 1999. Short fiction "And Now Doth Time Waste Me" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb) Awards Miles Franklin Award for The Cupboard Under the Stairs, 1962 (joint winner) Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award for Beloved Son, 1979 Arthur C Clarke Award for The Sea and Summer, 1988 Commonwealth Writers' Prize South-East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book Award, for The Sea and Summer, 1988 References Sources Milner, Andrew (2014). 'The Sea and Eternal Summer: An Australian Apocalypse'. In Canavan, Gerry and Kim Stanley Robinson (eds) Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, pp. 115–126. External links 1916 births 1997 deaths Australian science fiction writers Australian speculative fiction critics Australian speculative fiction editors Miles Franklin Award winners Science fiction critics 20th-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists People from Kalgoorlie Australian military personnel of World War II