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Автор Урсула Ле Гуин
Gardner Dozois
The Juniper Tree - John Kessel
Antibodies - Charles Stross
The Birthday of the World - Ursula K. LeGuin
Savior - Nancy Kress
Reef - Paul J. McAuley
Going After Bobo - Susan Palwick
Crux - Albert E. Cowdrey
The Cure for Everything - Severna Park
The Suspect Genome - Peter F. Hamilton
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-o - Michael Swanwick
Radiant Green Star - Lucius Shepard
Great Wall of Mars Alastair Reynolds
Milo and Sylvie - Eliot Fintushel
Snowball in Hell - Brian Stableford
On the Orion Line - Stephen Baxter
Oracle - Greg Egan
Obsidian Harvest - Rick Cook amp; Ernest Hogan
Patient Zero - Tananarive Due
A Colder War - Charles Stross
The Real World - Steven Utley
The Thing About Benny - M. Shayne Bell
The Great Goodbye - Robert Charles Wilson
Tendeleo’s Story - Ian Mcdonald
Gardner Dozois
The Years Best Science Fiction, Vol. 18
The Juniper Tree - John Kessel
Born in Buffalo, New York, John Kessel now lives with his family in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is a professor of American literature and creative writing at North Carolina State University. Kessel made his first sale in 1975. His first solo novel,Good News from Outer Space,was released in 1988 to wide critical acclaim, but before that he had made his mark on the genre primarily as a writer of highly imaginative, finely crafted short stories, many of which were assembled in his collection Meeting in Infinity. He won a Nebula Award in 1983 for his superlative novella “Another Orphan,” which was also a Hugo finalist that year, and has been released as an individual book. His story “Buffalo” won the Theodore Sturgeon Award in 1991. His other books include the novel Freedom Beach,written in collaboration with James Patrick Kelly, and an anthology of stories from the famous Sycamore Hill Writers Workshop (which he also helps to run), called Intersections,coedited by Mark L.
Van Name and Richard Butner. His most recent books are a major novel, Corrupting Dr. Nice,and a collection, The Pure Product.Here he takes us to a colonized Moon, humanity’s newest habitation, for a taut encounter with some passions that are very old indeed…
The Juniper Tree One of the most successful transplants to the colony established by the Society of Cousins on the far side of the Moon was the juniper tree. Soon after Jack Baldwin and his daughter Rosalind emigrated in 2085, a project under Baldwin’s direction planted junipers on the inside slopes of the domed crater, where they prospered in the low-moisture environment. Visitors to the Society today may be excused if, strolling the woods above the agricultural lands of the crater floor, the fragrance of the foliage, beneath the projected blue sky of the dome, makes them think for a moment that they are in some low-gravity dream of New Mexico.
It was under a juniper tree that Jack disposed of the remains of Carey Evasson, the fourteen-year-old boy he killed.
Ice The blue squad’s centering pass slid through the crease, where Maryjane fanned on the shot. The puck skidded to the boards, and Roz, who had been promoted to the red team for today’s practice, picked it up to start a rush the other way. Carey spotted her from across the rink and set off parallel to her.
