Gina Cole was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2023. A kitchen-sink plot fails to vitiate the freshness of much of the author's attempts to rework traditional material. She is eventually called into space to help rescue her sister, who is trapped in a cosmic whirlpool, discovering en passant that a corporatized Homo sapiens expedition plans to commit genocide on a planet suitable for exploitation (see Colonization of Other Worlds). Her thesis on this subject, Wayfinding Pasifikafuturim: An Indigenous Science Fiction Vision of the Ocean in Space: A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand ( 2020 ebook), relates this form of sf to Afrofuturism and Nnedi Okorafor's Africanfuturism a version of her first novel (see below) is included.Īfter a series of tales published as Black Ice Matter (coll 2016), Cole is of sf interest for her first novel, the Young Adult Space Opera Na Viro ( 2022), whose protagonist, a cadet nearing graduation, declines the chance to join a mission into deep space, remaining in her native Pacific Archipelago, which now lies, through Climate Change, meters below the surface, but where a high-tech culture thrives. Her second book Na Viro is a science fiction fantasy novel and a work of Pasifikafuturism.(1960- ) New Zealand lawyer and author, active in the latter capacity after 2010, creator of the term pasifikafuturism, which is to say sf (and Fantastika in general) expressive of understandings and experience of the nature and fate of the world as seen through the eyes of the original inhabitants of Pacifica from an anti- Imperialist perspective. She is a qualified lawyer, holds a PhD in creative writing from Massey University and is an Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. She was the inaugural Pasifika curator at the Auckland Writers Festival in 2021. Her work has been widely anthologized and published in literary journals. Her collection Black Ice Matter won the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book Fiction at the 2017 Ockham Book Awards. She is a freelance writer and lives in Tāmaki Makaurau. Gina Cole is of Fijian, Scottish and Welsh descent. And when the cosmic whirlpool sucks Leilani’s shuttle into its grip, Tia must overcome her fear of space travel and find a way to work with her mother, who is leading the rescue, or risk losing her sister forever. Her debut collection Black Ice Matter won the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book. Estranged from her parents, Tia is bereft when her sister, Leilani, joins the crew of a puffer fish spaceship sent to investigate a whirlpool in deep space. Gina Cole is a freelance writer currently living in Tmaki Makaurau.
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