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పొడి రాత్రులు… ఫ్రెడెరిక్ టర్నర్, అమెరికను కవి

పాపం! ఆ చంటివాడు బాల్యానికి ప్రతీకలా ఉన్నాడు అతని పక్క అడవిజంతువు అవాసంలా కంపుకొడుతోంది అతని శరీరం ఒక అలా నిద్రిస్తుంటే, అమాయకత్వం అతనిలో కొట్టొచ్చినట్టు కనిపిస్తోంది. అతని కలల్ల్ని కబ్జా చేస్తే అతనికి అన్యాయం చేసినవాళ్లమవుతాం! ఆ పరాయీకరణనీ, వింతవింత సున్నపురాయంత తెల్లని తీరాల్నీ, పేరులేని అందమైన ప్రదేశాలనీ, అతని విశృంఖలమైన కలనీ మృదుస్పర్శతో తోసిపుచ్చగలమా? ఈ మధ్యనే అతను మంగలిషాపులో కుర్చీలో…

Congratulations to Frederick Turner whose epic science fiction poem APOCALYPSE has been nominated for the prestigious Elgin Award!

The Science Fiction Poetry Association awards the Elgin to the best poetry published in the preceding two years. APOCALYPSE is up for Best Full-Length Book – congratulations!!!

“Frederick Turner reveals the poetic soul of science fiction” — David Brin

APOCALYPSE It’s 2067. The Antarctic ice sheets have collapsed. World sea levels have risen several feet and are rising faster still. The climate has changed catastrophically, and meteorological disasters are becoming a daily occurrence. Yet global power structures fail to respond, remaining frozen in political and ideological gridlock.

To confront this chaos, billionaire Noah Blazo recruits a team of genius misfits to bypass the political paralysis. With support from a coalition of island and coastal nations that are vulnerable to these catastrophes, his team launches an unsanctioned geo-engineering effort to restore the Earth’s ecological balance—an activity that prompts a global power struggle immediately leading to war.

Learn more about Frederick Turner on his website: www.frederickturnerpoet.com

APOCALYPSE by Frederick Turner is about fighting climate change.

It’s epic, it’s science fiction and…it’s written entirely in iambic pentameter. We originally pitched APOCALYPSE as Beowulf meets The Day After Tomorrow and the book is available now in ebook from Baen Books and print from Ilium Press.

We’re thrilled to share this glowing review of APOCALYPSE published yesterday at Fantasy Faction:

“Apocalypse is strange and brilliant and possibly one of the most magnificent pieces of writing I’ve yet come across…In one passage, a seemingly mundane passage about salmon becomes a beautiful tale of a journey that is ‘powered by desire, drawn by mad love’. While exploration of universal themes that have long held mankind’s thoughts, offers us gifts such as ‘Time doesn’t only happen by the push of what is past, but by the pull, the draw of some unfinished absence in the future’.

There is also a passage about the deepest pain of humanity near the halfway mark that I’ll probably return to time and again as I get older, because it is encapsulates so well the beauty of life and the struggle we have with death.”

Read the entire review here: Fantasy Faction reviews APOCALYPSE

Congratulations Fred! Read more about Fred’s award-winning poetry on his website: www.frederickturnerpoet.com

Congratulations to Dr. Frederick Turner whose epic science fiction poem APOCALYPSE is now available in trade paperback and hard cover!

It’s been a whirlwind season for this book – the fabulous Baen Publishing made APOCALYPSE available in serial format over the summer and ebook right after Labor Day. Now we’ve partnered with boutique publisher Ilium to make the work available in print. Happy reading everyone!

What is an epic science fiction poem? Dr. Turner and Sci-Fi author Michael J. Martinez discuss APOCALYPSE and poetry here.

And in Fred’s own words, here is a post called “Apocalypse Is Here, And It May Be More Fun Than You’d Think.”

APOCALYPSE It’s 2067. The Antarctic ice sheets have collapsed. World sea levels have risen several feet and are rising faster still. The climate has changed catastrophically, and meteorological disasters are becoming a daily occurrence. Yet global power structures fail to respond, remaining frozen in political and ideological gridlock.

To confront this chaos, billionaire Noah Blazo recruits a team of genius misfits to bypass the political paralysis. With support from a coalition of island and coastal nations that are vulnerable to these catastrophes, his team launches an unsanctioned geo-engineering effort to restore the Earth’s ecological balance–an activity that prompts a global power struggle immediately leading to war.

Events in the center of this conflict inadvertently trigger the emergence a quasi-divine being, Kalodendron, who dwells within the Internet. With her arrival comes a further threat to the Earth–the appearance of the dark star Wormwood, which looms within our solar system and is drawing closer.

With Kalodendron’s help, can Blazo’s team avert this two-fold threat the Earth’s destruction? Or do the tragedies that quickly follow ensure the planet’s final destruction?

Read more about Frederick Turner on his website: www.frederickturnerpoet.com

Please help us congratulate Dr. Frederick Turner whose epic science fiction poem, APOCALYPSE, releases from Baen Books today in ebook!

APOCALYPSE is the story of a misfit group of scientists who collude against the government to save the world from climate annihilation. Written entirely in iambic pentameter, I originally pitched this book as The Day After Tomorrow done Beowulf-style.

Dr. Turner is an internationally known poet, lecturer, scholar, and Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Read his wonderful blog post, “Apocalypse is here, and it may be more fun than you’d think.”

APOCALYPSE will be available in October in paperback and museum-quality hard cover – check back here for on sale details!

“I loved the blank verse, so supple and expressive; and the command of a fictional history, the epic sweep of a macro-plot along with the many interesting characters and situations at the personal level…It’s wonderful.” – bestselling and award-winning author, Kim Stanley Robinson

Congratulations Fred! Happy reading everyone – this book took my breath away when I first read it as a slush pile query – it’s beautiful, classic, intense, thought-provoking and awe-inspiring. Enjoy!

Follow Dr. Turner on his website: www.frederickturnerpoet.com

Today marks the tenth and final installment in the serialization of Dr. Frederick Turner’s APOCALYPSE via Baen Books.

What a grand adventure! Next week the ebook will become available followed in mid October by a paperback edition and a museum-quality hard cover. Congratulations Dr. Turner – this poem has been an epic undertaking with amazing results!

Read the serialization on Baen.com now – as of next week it won’t be available any more on the website and will only be available for sale: Baen.com/Apocalypse

Here’s a piece of fanmail from bestselling and award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson: “I loved the blank verse, so supple and expressive; and the command of a fictional history, the epic sweep of a macro-plot along with the many interesting characters and situations at the personal level.”

And a letter from our brilliant editor, Tony Daniel at Baen: Baen is extraordinarily pleased to have offered Frederick Turner’s wonderful and exciting epic as a weekly serialization through the summer of 2016. The response has been outstanding from readers and it is just plain cool to have the opportunity to publish a genuine epic poem in the great tradition by one of the best poets of our times. We are also pleased to announce that the complete version of Apocalypse will be available in ebook form on September 22 at the Baen Ebooks retail site, Amazon, iTunes, and at other ebook sellers everywhere.

Finally, a note from Dr. Turner himself: “I’ve been getting mail from the most unlikely people saying that Thursday has become a big day for them because of the serial. Others say that they never dreamed that they would be reading poetry with the urgent desire to find out what happens next. And that was what I’ve wanted poetry to be like all along. The concept and the format were just right. Fred”

Follow Dr. Turner’s adventures on his website: www.frederickturnerpoet.com