Just wanted to say, I adore Maurice Gee, "The Halfmen of O" left quite the impression on me as a child. Great quintessential New Zealand sci-fi novels from a fantastic mind.
Yeah, that was another great one too. He always struck me as being well-known in NZ, but less so outside it, which felt like a real shame.
And the children's series, which made its way to the United States during Nickelodeon's bundle series, The Third Eye.