TY - ABST T1 - The Severed Land Y1 - 2017 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A country is divided in two by the arrival of conquerors looking for gold and other valuable resources and then for land. The “Old People” create a wall between the violent South and the peaceful North. 

PB - Puffin/Penguin Random House New Zealand CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Limping Man Y1 - 2010 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Third volume in a series of related young adult dystopias. This volume sees the rise of a dictator in the city who controls his followers with an exceptionally strong mental control. He is ultimately defeated and the peaceful society that had been growing in the countryside is saved. See also 2007 and 2008 Gee.

PB - Puffin Books CY - Rosedale, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gool Y1 - 2008 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Gee. Young adult fantasy adventure set in a post-catastrophe dystopia where young people must defeat a being from outside nature that is destroying what is left of New Zealand. See also 2010 Gee.

PB - Puffin Books CY - Rosedale, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salt Y1 - 2007 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia. The extremely rich and powerful versus the extremely poor and effectively enslaved. A girl from the top and a boy from the bottom are forced by circumstances to flee the dystopia, with most of the action of the novel concerned with the flight, the rescue of the boy's father, and a brief return to the dystopia. The ending suggests the possibility of them creating a better society. See also 2008 and 2010 Gee.

PB - Puffin Books CY - Rosedale, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Motherstone Y1 - 1985 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Third volume of a trilogy. In this volume the girl from Earth is kidnapped as she tries to leave O. On O evil has defeated good in the humans, and they can only be freed from it by starting over with no knowledge. This is achieved, and the girl is finally able to leave. The other inhabitants of O will help the humans. Sequel to 1982 and 1984 Gee.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Puffin Books, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Priests of Ferris Y1 - 1984 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Second volume in a trilogy. In this volume the girl returns to the planet O. On Earth a year had passed, while on O a hundred years had passed and an authoritarian religion using her name controlled all the humans. With the help of the others, she defeats the religious leaders. Sequel to 1982 Gee. See also 1985 Gee.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Puffin Books, 1987.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Halfmen of O Y1 - 1982 A1 - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

First volume in a young adult trilogy. This volume describes an authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements set on the Planet O where good and evil have become separated and a young girl from Earth brings them back together to free those who were dominated by evil. In addition to the humans who are evil, the planet has a number of sentient life forms, such as bird people and seafolk, who help her and two others from Earth. See also 1984 and 1985 Gee.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Puffin Books, 1984. Extract 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), 67-92. 

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