Frederick Turner

• Feb-1979
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2006
• / Historical
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Francis Muldoon is a special policeman in the notorious Storyville District of New Orleans in 1913. His job is to see that the District’s volatile mixture of sex, alcohol, and gambling doesn’t boil over but instead rolls along at a continuous sim...

• Jun-2010
• / Literary
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A faded newspaperman downs a double Maker's Mark and contemplates life as a ham-and-egger, a hack. Then one day he finds the scoop of a lifetime in a Chicago basement: diaries belonging to the infamous Judith Campbell Exner. Right, that Judy, the gam...

• Mar-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Set four hundred years in the future, Frederick Turner's epic poem, The New World, celebrates American culture in A.D. 2376. As the book opens, the nation-state has been fragmented and replaced by new political forms: the Riots, violent anarchisti...

• Jan-2012
• / Science Fiction
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Originally published in 1988, Genesis was the first major work of fiction that addressed the idea of terraforming Mars. It not only suggested the idea, but provided a feasible solution for doing so. During its initial publication, Genesis was on the ...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2016
• / Science Fiction
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When the Earth becomes a maelstrom of storms and rising sea levels due to catastrophic climate change, some want to give up and call it a day for humanity. Yet there are also those heroic few who are determined to take action and do something about t...

• Jul-2017
• / Fantasy
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Epic does many things. Among others, it defines the nature of the human storyteller; recalls the creation of the world and of the human race; describes the paradoxical role of the hero as both the Everyman and the radical exception; and establishes t...

• Aug-2018
• / Historical
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In The Kid and Me Frederick Turner deftly re-creates the Lincoln County War in what was then New Mexico Territory. The 1878 war pitted an established faction led by James Dolan against new arrivals in the county led by John Tunstall and Ale...

• Aug-2023
• / Thriller
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Soldiers by Frederick TurnerTwo sides. One struggle.Abdul and Darren grow up in the same industrial backwater, each with his own set of problems. For one of them it's racism and the misery of displacement; for the other, it's life on welfare with a m...

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A rip-roaring, entertaining image of a bygone era that deserves Pulitzer consideration. —Kirkus ReviewsBy 1929, the brief, brilliant career of Bix Beiderbecke—self-taught cornetist, pianist, and composer—had already become legend. From...