The Juniper Tree

by John Kessel

It's not easy being the new kid on the block, especially when you're from Earth and everyone else at school grew up on the moon colony you now live in.

Genres: Science Fiction

Kindle Edition

First published September 25, 2003

About the author

John (Joseph Vincent) Kessel co-directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A winner of the Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and Tiptree Awards, his books include Good News From Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, The Pure Product, and The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories. His story collection Meeting in Infinity was a New York Times Notable Book. Most recently, with James Patrick Kelly he has edited the anthologies Feeling Very Strange, Rewired, The Secret History of Science Fiction and Kafkaesque. Born in Buffalo, NY, Kessel has a PhD in American Literature, has been an NEA Fellow, and for twenty years has been one of the organizers of the Sycamore Hill Writers Workshop.

Reviews

[Peter Tillman · Rating 3 out of 5]

"A father and daughter emigrate to a sexually open lunar colony, but old values keep them from fitting in, and the father kills the daughter's lover." -- Brian Davies. OK+, 3 stars.