Stranger from the Depths

TitleStranger from the Depths
Year for Search1967
AuthorsTurner, Gerry(1921-82)
Date Published1967
PublisherDoubleday & Co
Place PublishedGarden City, NY
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

A young adult novel about the discovery of an undersea technological eutopia with gender equality that predates humanity and disappeared because of a plague. This is contrasted with a dystopian community from the same time that survived. The dystopia has gender inequality, drugged citizens, and violence.

Additional Publishers

An abridged paperback version as published by New York: Scholastic, 1970.

Holding Institutions

CU-Riv, Merril

Author Note

(1921-82)

Full Text

1967 Turner, Gerry (1921-82). Stranger from the Depths. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. An abridged paperback version as published by New York: Scholastic, 1970. CU-Riv, Merril

A young adult novel about the discovery of an undersea technological eutopia with gender equality that predates humanity and disappeared because of a plague. This is contrasted with a dystopian community from the same time that survived. The dystopia has gender inequality, drugged citizens, and violence.