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No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Inquiries should be addressed to Permissions Department, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 105 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nTurner, George. Drowning towers.  \nI. Title.  \nPR9619.3.T868D75 1988 823 88-10550  \nISBN 1-55710-038-1  \nPrinted in the United States of America First U.S. Edition  \n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  \nFOR JOHN FOYSTER WHO GAVE SOUND ADVICE  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENT  \nThis work was assisted by a writer's fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body.  \n'We must plan for five years ahead and twenty years and a hundred years.'  \nSir Macfarlane Burnett  \nTHE AUTUMN PEOPLE 1  \n1  \nThe sun, high in early afternoon, sparkled on still water. There was no breeze; only the powercraft's wake disturbed the placid bay. The pilot's chart showed in dotted lines an old riverbed directly below his keel, but no current flowed at the surface; the Yarra now debouched some distance to the north, at the foot of the Dande-nongs where the New City sheltered among hills and trees.  \nThe pilot had lost his first awe of the Old City and the vast extent of the drowned ruins below; this was for him a routine trip. He carried hundreds of historians, archaeologists, divers and sightseers in the course of a year. His thought now was simple pleasure that the sun had power enough to have made it worthwhile to shed his clothes and enjoy its warmth on his skin.  \nThere were not many such days, even in midsummer, and the southern wind would bring a chill before nightfall. Enjoy while you may, he thought, snatch the moment. And if that edged a little too close to hedonism for a practising Christian, so be it. He believed in the forgiveness of sin rather than in the possibility of his own perfection.  \nWhen this sunken city had reached its swollen maximum of population and desperation, a thousand years before, the sun had blazed throughout the four seasons, but that time was over and would not return. The Long Summer had ended and the Long Winter - perhaps a hundred thousand years of it - loomed. The cold southern wind at nightfall, every nightfall, was its whisper of intent and the pilot was happy to be living now rather than earlier or later.  \nNot every wall and spire of the Old City lay below the bay. The melting of the Antarctic ice cap had been checked as the polluted atmosphere rebalanced its elements and the blanket of global heat dissipated; the fullest rise of the ocean level had been forestalled though not soon enough to avert disaster to the coastal cities of the planet. To the north and northeast of the powercraft's position lay the islands which had been the higher ground of Melbourne's outer suburbs, forested now and overgrown, but storehouses of history.  \nThe other ruins, the other storehouses, part submerged, were clusters of gigantic towers built (with the blind persistence of those who could not believe in the imminence of disaster) in the lower reaches of the sprawling city. There were ten Enclaves, each a group of nearly identical towers whose designs had varied little in the headlong efficiency of their building. 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