Julian: A Christmas Story

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Julian: A Christmas Story
Author	Robert Charles Wilson
Cover artist	Edward Miller
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fiction
Publisher	PS Publishing
Publication date	2006
Media type	Novella
Pages	86(hardcover edition), 50 (online edition)
ISBN	978-19058349648

Julian: A Christmas Story is a dystopian speculative fiction novella written by Robert Charles Wilson.

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Julian 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 has in the story become a part of the United States; and 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 twenty-first century, a time which was believed to be the 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 quell 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.

Robert Charles Wilson is currently working on turning Julian in to a full length novel.