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said that the collection "would be a good book on any reckoning but as a first book it is simply outstanding"; it "shows an assurance of tone, a clarity of style and expression, and an ability to handle different voices, that would be the envy of most more experienced authors". She also had an essay
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was published. It is a science fiction novel set in the distant future and featuring
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is "an important and enjoyable pioneering story that not only brings a uniquely
Pasifika voice to the genre but also uses its inter-galactic plot to celebrate the traditions and challenges of the Pacific".
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282:. The award involved a month's residency at Varuna, to be taken up in October 2022, and an appearance at the Blue Mountains Writers' Festival. In 2022 she had a story published in the
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described it as an "ambitious book", "at the forefront of a new and particularly interesting genre", but noted that the book was challenging to read in some respects. A review in
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received the award for best first book of fiction at the 2017
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received the award for best first book of fiction at the
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1119:21st-century New Zealand women lawyers
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1019:20th-century New Zealand women lawyers
759:. Auckland, NZ: Penguin Random House.
705:"Review: Black Ice Matter, Gina Cole"
653:"Literary lesbian emerges victorious"
311:The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms
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974:, article by Cole about her life on
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253:In July 2022, Cole's first novel
140:Cole was born in 1960. She is of
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807:"This week's best-selling books"
805:Braunias, Steve (15 July 2022).
319:A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-Taha
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1039:20th-century Fijian LGBT people
406:National Library of New Zealand
286:anthology, and gave the annual
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198:Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
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228:International Writing Program
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854:Landfall Review Online
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