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The Quiet Earth, the Glossary

The Quiet Earth is a 1981 science fiction novel by New Zealand writer Craig Harrison.^[1]

Auckland

Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.

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Autism

Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.

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Beehive (New Zealand)

The Beehive (Te Whare Mīere) is the common name for the Executive Wing of New Zealand Parliament Buildings, located at the corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington.

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Bernard Beckett

Bernard Beckett (born 13 October 1967) is a New Zealand writer of fiction for young adults.

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Book of Revelation

The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible).

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Craig Harrison (writer)

Craig Harrison (born 1942 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is a British-New Zealand author, playwright, scriptwriter, and retired university lecturer, probably best known for his novel The Quiet Earth, which was published in 1982.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Geoff Murphy

Geoffrey Peter Murphy (12 October 1938 – 3 December 2018) was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the second half of the 1970s.

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Gisborne, New Zealand

Gisborne is a city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District (or Gisborne Region).

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Hell

In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as punishment after death.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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Hypnotic

Hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos, sleep), or soporific drugs, commonly known as sleeping pills, are a class of (and umbrella term for) psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep (or surgical anesthesiaWhen used in anesthesia to produce and maintain unconsciousness, "sleep" is metaphorical as there are no regular sleep stages or cyclical natural states; patients rarely recover from anesthesia feeling refreshed and with renewed energy.

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Infrasound

Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low frequency sound, describes sound waves with a frequency below the lower limit of human audibility (generally 20 Hz, as defined by the ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013 standard).

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Lake Taupō

Lake Taupō (also spelled Taupo; Taupō-nui-a-Tia or) is a large crater lake in New Zealand's North Island, located in the caldera of Taupō Volcano.

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Lotus Elite

The Lotus Elite name has been used for two production vehicles and one concept vehicle developed and manufactured by British automobile manufacturer Lotus Cars.

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Māori people

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).

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New Zealand Army

The New Zealand Army (Ngāti Tūmatauenga, "Tribe of the God of War") is the principal land warfare force of New Zealand, a component of the New Zealand Defence Force alongside the Royal New Zealand Navy and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Purgatory

Purgatory (borrowed into English via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is a passing intermediate state after physical death for purifying or purging a soul.

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Rotorua

Rotorua is a city in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island.

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South Island

The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth

Also known as Quiet Earth.

The Quiet Earth, the Glossary

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See also

1981 science fiction novels

20th-century New Zealand novels

New Zealand novels adapted into films

New Zealand science fiction novels

Novels by Craig Harrison

Novels set in Auckland

Novels set in New Zealand

Post-apocalyptic novels

References