Wilkinson, Vernon
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1916-1988) New Zealand teacher and author of various works of nonfiction about the place of New Zealand in the world. Of sf interest is After The Bomb: Flight to Utopia (1984), set on a distant Near Future Earth two centuries after World War Three, as the occupants of a returning Spaceship discover, a Utopian civilization has evolved, though the maintenance of an aggression-free world has, as usual, proved costly. [JC]
Vernon Francis Wilkinson
born Nightcaps, Southland, New Zealand: 29 November 1916
died Canterbury, New Zealand: 1988
works (selected)
- After The Bomb: Flight to Utopia (Auckland, New Zealand: Interface Press, 1984) [pb/]
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