@booklet {4309, title = {Arena}, year = {1992}, month = {1992}, publisher = {Minerva}, address = {Auckland, New Zealand}, abstract = {

Degenerate, authoritarian post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive environmental damage. Roman-style gladiatorial games are the focus of the novel.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Male author}, author = {John Cranna (b. 1954)} } @booklet {7002, title = {"Visitors"}, howpublished = {Stand Magazine (U.K.)}, volume = {27}, year = {1985}, note = {

Rpt. in Best Short Stories 1987. Ed. Giles Gordon and David Hughes (London: William Heinemann, 1987), 27-41; and in his Visitors (Auckland, New Zealand: Heinemann Reed, 1989), 1-15.

}, month = {Winter 1985-86}, pages = {28-37}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Story set in a world where an old man is being given regular electroshock treatments to take away his memories. The torturers, described as \"Pale Suits,\" are part of a movement suppressing the poor throughout the world. A revolt takes place but appears to fail. The point-of-view character, the grandson of the man being tortured, leaves to join the opposition.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Male author}, author = {John Cranna (b. 1954)} }