The Stone Wētā

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2020
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The novel is about climate change and is set slightly in the future when governments are attempting to suppress the data by forcing scientific journals to falsify it, removing the data from the internet, and killing the scientists because "People who know nothing can be controlled" (8). A group of scientists fight back by establishes caches where the original data is hidden.

Pagination
174 pp.
Publisher
Paper Road Press
Place Published
Wellington, New Zealand
ISBN Number
978-0-9951355-0-5, 978177809640
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2020 Cade, Octavia (b. 1977). The Stone Wētā. Wellington, New Zealand: Paper Road Press. 174 pp. The novel originated as a story with the same title in Clarkesworld, no. 131 (August 2017). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cade_08_17/. Rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 478-493; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 144-159. PSt

The novel is about climate change and is set slightly in the future when governments are attempting to suppress the data by forcing scientific journals to falsify it, removing the data from the internet, and killing the scientists because "People who know nothing can be controlled" (8). A group of scientists fight back by establishes caches where the original data is hidden. The Aotearoa/New Zealand female author holds a doctorate in science communications.

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The novel originated as a story with the same title in Clarkesworld, no. 131 (August 2017). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cade_08_17/. Rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 478-493; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 144-159.

Author Note

The Aotearoa/New Zealand female author (b. 1977) holds a doctorate in science communications.

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