Drowning Towers

Francis Conway is Swill--one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill homes into watery tombs. And now the young boy must find a way to escape the approaching tide of disaster.

"The best didactic novel since the dispossessed." - Joe Haldeman

"His most powerful novel...George Turner belongs to the world." - Gene Wolfe