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Name: TURNER, George Reginald
Aged: 80
Born: October 8, 1916
Where: Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Died: June 8, 1997
Where: Ballarat, AUSTRALIA
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Awarded: Australia's SF Achievement Awards (the
Ditmars): 1979 for Beloved Son; 1984 for Yesterday's Men;
and, 1994 for The Destiny Makers. Five William Atherling Awards for
criticism; 1976, 1977, 1981, 1985, and 1986. In 1994, The Chandler Award for 'Outstanding Achievement in Australian Science Fiction' and also won an Arthur C. Clarke Award.
George Turner
Attended high school in Melbourne and worked there and in Wangaratta as an employment officer. Spent 6 years during WW2, 1939-1945, with the Australian Imperial Forces in Europe and New Guinea.
One of the foremost Australian SF writers, critics, and teachers. Important works include Brain Child and Beloved Son. George's SF contributions occurred in the last 40 years of his life. He preferred to work in the novel format, although a collection of eight shorter works, A Pursuit of Miracles, was published in 1990 by Aphelion. Turner's health began to fail in 1993 with a stroke, which when coupled with advancing age, never allowed George to recover.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mine here.
BIOGRAPHY: George Turner: A Life, Judith Raphael Buckrich, Melbourne University Press, 1999
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