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Cover art: Geoff Taylor
Blurb: “In the viciously polarized society of Twenty-first Century Melbourne the Haves and Have-nots are drowning separately in a sea of accumulated debt and overpopulation as a literal tide of filth encroaches on their towers.
Poor nations have collapsed into barbarism, the Greenhouse Effect has made chaos of weather and food production - and at the bottom of the heap the dispossessed 'Swill' show no is George Turner's brilliantly realized, epic vision of humanity's future, a totally convincing portrait of a society in which real people struggle and endure, a science fiction classic in the great tradition The general conception is a grand one and it's in the images of heat and flood, decayed clapboard respectability and towers crammed with struggling, rubbished human beings that George Turner really scores' - THE GUARDIAN