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Bruce Gillespie exchanged letters with George Turner for nearly 30 years. When George Turner died in June 1997, Gillespie was surprised to find that Turner had made him his Literary Executor.

Foyster argues that George Turner's first article, 'The Double Standard,' reveals much of his philosophy of science fiction.

George Turner discusses differences between literary criticism and reviewing.

George Turner establishes guidelines for writing reviews and critical articles about science fiction.

A reference work tracing the contributions of significant Australian science fiction writers during the period 1892-1980. This essay is based on George Turner's 'Science Fiction in Australia : A Complete Survey' (published in SF Commentary 55/56, 1979) and on the paper he delivered in 1981 to the 'Conference on Speculative Fiction: The Australian Context' (held by the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra on 18 July 1981). Bruce Gillespie has edited these two works into one article to provide a counterweight to Australian SF 'history' from the limited viewpoint of the 1990s.

Essentially an essay constructed as two two letters by Turner, the first is signed 'An Indignant Reader,' while the second is from 'A Hopelessly Biased but Aprroving Reviewer.'

Transcription of a panel discussion at Aussiecon (August 1975), transcribed by Bruce Gillespie.

George Turner discusses his literary themes and writing methods.