Turton, Godfrey
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1901-1985) UK author of such fantasies as The Devil's Churchyard (1970) and The Festival of Flora: A Story of Ancient and Modern Times (1972). He remains of some sf interest for There Was Once a City (1927), in which an ancient City is inundated through a Disaster whose causation is Equipoisal between supernatural hubris and natural cataclysm; and The Moon Dies (1972), a book-length blank-verse narrative (see Poetry) of the destruction of Earth's first Moon (broken apart by Gravity), the death of human civilization, and the survival of Noah. [JC]
Godfrey Edmund Turton
born Kildale, Yorkshire: 4 January 1901
died Oxford, Oxfordshire: 24 November 1985
works
- There Was Once a City (London: Methuen and Co, 1927) [hb/]
- The Devil's Churchyard (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1970) [hb/]
- The Festival of Flora: A Story of Ancient and Modern Times (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1972) [hb/]
- The Moon Dies (Chichester, Sussex: Janay Publishing Co, 1972) [poem: chap: hb/uncredited]
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