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Oct 19, 2024 · Gee’s books resonate across genre, across decades, back and forward through time, across ages: the political and environmental messages of his fantasy fiction (The O Trilogy, Salt, Gool,...
The first book, Plumb (1978), covers the period from the 1890s through 1949; it is based on the career of Gee’s grandfather, a Presbyterian minister who was tried for heresy by his church and jailed for sedition by the state.
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In order to improve his income, Gee began working in television writing, including writing for 11 episodes of soap opera Close to Home and episodes of police drama Mortimer's Patch. [21][30] Two of his children's books, The Fire-Raiser (1986) and The Champion (1989) originated as television projects. [30]
Maurice Gee has 51 books on Goodreads with 15654 ratings. Maurice Gee’s most popular book is Under the Mountain.
As well as writing adult fiction, Gee has written for television (including Close to Home and Mortimer’s Patch). His books include award winning novels: Plumb (1978), Live Bodies (1998) and Blindsight (2005) and children’s classics: Under the Mountain (1979) and The Halfmen of O (1980).
Maurice Gee's novel Blindsight (Penguin Books, 2005) won the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the Montana Award for Fiction at the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Gee also jointly received the Readers' Choice Award with Fiona Kidman.
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For the next ten years, Gee learned to write—to find his writing voice, develop his style, and establish an audience. He published eleven stories between 1955 and 1961, the years leading up to his first published novel in 1962.
