@booklet {6168, title = {Chinese Opera}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, publisher = {Victoria University Press}, address = {Wellington, New Zealand}, abstract = {

Dystopia showing the effects of global warming on Wellington, New Zealand, including the flooding of much of the central city, the massive displacement of people from other countries, extreme poverty, and the rise of gangs and violence to control the new situation. The story is told from the point of view of an elderly man who had once controlled the area.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Male author}, author = {Ian Wedde (b. 1946)} } @booklet {3790, title = {Symmes Hole}, year = {1986}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.

}, month = {1986}, publisher = {Penguin Books}, address = {Auckland, New Zealand}, abstract = {

A complex novel that weaves together the history of whaling and contemporary New Zealand among other threads. One of the threads is a near future dystopia of the Americanization of New Zealand.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Male author}, author = {Ian Wedde (b. 1946)} }