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George Turner (writer)

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George Reginald Turner (15 October 1916 – 8 June 1997) was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. [1]

29 relations: Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bruce Gillespie, Christopher Priest (novelist), Commonwealth Foundation prizes, Commonwealth Literary Fund, Ditmar Award, Dreaming Down-Under, Extrapolation, Global warming, Greenwood Publishing Group, Jack Dann, Janeen Webb, John Bangsund, Kalgoorlie, Melbourne, Melbourne University Publishing, Miles Franklin Award, Nebula Award, Russell Blackford, Science fiction, SF Masterworks, The Age, The Cupboard Under the Stairs, The Lame Dog Man, Vonda N. McIntyre, Western Australia, World War II, Worldcon, 57th World Science Fiction Convention.

Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year.

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Bruce Gillespie

Bruce Gillespie (born 1947) is a prominent Australian science fiction fan best known for his long-running sf fanzine SF Commentary.

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Christopher Priest (novelist)

Christopher Priest (born 14 July 1943) is a British novelist and science fiction writer.

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Commonwealth Foundation prizes

Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011.

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Commonwealth Literary Fund

The Commonwealth Literary Fund (CLF) was an Australian Government initiative founded in 1908 to assist needy Australian writers and their families.

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Ditmar Award

The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction (including fantasy and horror) and science fiction fandom.

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Dreaming Down-Under

Dreaming Down-Under is a 1998 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb.

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Extrapolation

In mathematics, extrapolation is the process of estimating, beyond the original observation range, the value of a variable on the basis of its relationship with another variable.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.

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Jack Dann

Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994.

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Janeen Webb

Janeen Webb (née Pemberton) is an Australian writer, critic and editor, working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.

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John Bangsund

John Bangsund (born 1939) was a prominent Australian science fiction fan in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

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Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie, part of the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, is a city in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne University Publishing

Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne.

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Miles Franklin Award

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".

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Nebula Award

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

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Russell Blackford

Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and literary critic, based for many years in Melbourne.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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SF Masterworks

SF Masterworks is a series of science fiction books started by Millennium and currently published by Victor Gollancz Ltd (both being imprints of the UK based Orion Publishing Group).

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Cupboard Under the Stairs

The Cupboard Under the Stairs is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author George Turner.

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The Lame Dog Man

The Lame Dog Man (1967) is a novel by Australian author George Turner.

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Vonda N. McIntyre

Vonda Neel McIntyre (born August 28, 1948) is an American science fiction author.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Worldcon

Worldcon, or more formally the World Science Fiction Convention, the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), is a science fiction convention.

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57th World Science Fiction Convention

Aussiecon Three was the 57th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Melbourne, Australia on 2–6 September 1999.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Turner_(writer)

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