Title: Down There in Darkness
Title Record # 20334
Author: George Turner
Date: 1999-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: George Turner
Date: 1999-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Tor first edition: This novel chronicles the future destruction and eventual rebirth of human civilization. It is linked to the future world of both Beloved Son and Drowning Towers, as well as others of his works. About a hundred years in the future, two men, one of them a policeman, are investigating a death involving a large international genetic engineering corporation. They become bothersome to the corporate owners and are taken out of action not by being killed but by being put to sleep for hundreds of years. But this may be a fate worse than death. They awaken to a distant future in which contemporary industrial civilization has been "cleansed" from the earth and what humanity survives is learning to live a very low-technology lifestyle, being bred eugenically to this life. The cleansing was done on purpose, an international plot by the rich and powerful who in fact rule the world - and who, in this distant future, are dying off. This is a complex and morally tortuous vision, and Turner's characters find it nearly impossible to adapt without killing someone, perhaps even themselves.
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Nominations Below Cutoff | 2000 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Down There in Darkness | 1999-05-00 | George Turner | Tor | 0-312-86829-4 | $24.95?$: US dollar |
352 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | John Harris | |
Down There in Darkness | 2000-04-00 | George Turner | Tor | 0-312-87258-5 | $15.95?$: US dollar |
352 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | John Harris |
Reviews
- Review by Russell Letson (1999) in Locus, #461 June 1999
- Review by Jonathan Strahan (1999) in Locus, #462 July 1999
- Review by Tom Arden (1999) in Interzone, #146 August 1999
- Review by Norman Spinrad (2000) in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2000
- Review by Paul Kincaid (2000) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 2000
- Review by Lucy Sussex (2000) in Nova Express, Fall/Winter 2000
- Review by Bruce Gillespie (2010) in SF Commentary, #80A