Kokopu dreams / Chris Baker.
Material type: TextSeries: Baker, Chris Kokopu dreams ; 1.Publication details: Wellington, N.Z. : Huia, 2000.Description: 230 pages : maps ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1877266310 (pbk.) :
- New Zealand stories
- Science fiction, New Zealand
- New Zealand fiction -- 20th century
- Viruses -- Fiction
- Virus diseases -- Fiction
- Pakiwaitara
- Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century
- Mythology, Maori -- Fiction
- New Zealand literature -- 20th century
- Survival -- New Zealand -- Fiction
- Epidemics -- Fiction
- Pakiwaitara. reo
- New Zealand fiction 20th century
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Stack Room | Stack Room | BAK | 1 | Available | T00344943 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"When the fire started to die down, Sean said goodbye to Uncle Wire, to his family, to the place that had been his home, and started out across the paddock. It was an eight-kilometre walk into Ngahere, about two hours. He could have driven, but the keys to both his car and Uncle Wire's truck had been in the burning houses, and hot wiring vehicles was not among his life skills. Instinct kept him moving slowly, giving him time to get his head around the things he suspected he'd find. Sean's dread grew with every step."
When a mutant strand of the calicivirus wipes out his family, friends, and community, Sean is motivated by his instinct to survive. Driven by dreams and expectation, Sean sets off with his horse and dog. Where is he going? What will he find? And who are the crazy Maeroero messing with his head?
A novel.
"Before the telly died, haggard looking people, politicians mostly, described how an illegally imported rabbit calicivirus had mutated. It wasn't killing rabbits any more, and nor was it affecting cats and dogs, and not the native bat nor the little spotted kiwi. But it had been killing people with a type of haemorrhagic fever that travelled from the Mackenzie Country up and down the land like the wind, from Bluff to Cape Reinga in about three weeks. And that was the good news"--Back cover.
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