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Julian: A Christmas Story
| Author: | Robert Charles Wilson |
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PS Publishing, 2006 |
| Series: | Julian Comstock |
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| Book Type: | Novella |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Alternate History (SF) Hard SF Near-Future |
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Synopsis
Hugo- and Sturgeon-nominated Novella
This dystopian speculative fiction novella is told from the perspective of teenager Adam Hazzard, who lives in the rural town of Williams Ford, in the state of Athabaska (today a region in Canada, but in the story, a part of the greater United States) in 2172, at a time when technology has regressed to 19th century levels. The story deals with his relationship with his friend Julian Comstock (later in life called Julian Conqueror or Julian the Agnostic), an aristocratic boy of his age with radical beliefs about God, science, and evolution, notably his beliefs in DNA and the Moon Landings, in defiance of the omnipresent and theocratic Church of the Dominion of Jesus Christ on Earth, which came about as a result of the end of oil in the 21st century, a time which was later interpreted as a Biblical Tribulation.
Julian is the nephew of the President, Deklan Comstock, and it is rumored that Deklan may send Julian to fight in the Labrador War against the European powers, in order to quiet dissent against him that his family does not care about the soldiers. The story centers on how Adam and Julian will avoid the coming draft and remain alive despite Julian's beliefs.
This novella was expanded into the novel Julian Comstock, A Story of the 22nd Century.
This novella is available online by permission of the author and publisher here (pdf) and here (html).
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