(1933-    ) New Zealand academic, advertising copywriter, hymn-writer and author whose second novel, The Pepper Leaf: An Episode (1971), is a Near-Future sf tale set in New Zealand. Fearful of nuclear catastrophe, a small group of vegetarian nudists expose themselves to survival conditions, and their cruel interactions, described in a tense, allusive style, provide a model for, or allegory of, the human condition in extremis. [JC]

Colin A Gibson

born Invercargill, New Zealand: 1933

died

works

• The Pepper Leaf: An Episode (London: Chatto and Windus, 1971) [hb/]

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