The Other Tree

It’s been four years since Chris Arlin graduated with a degree  most people think she made up, and she’s still no closer to scraping up funding for her research into rare plants, until a suspiciously well-dressed man offers her a  position on a scientific expedition. For Chris, the problem isn’t that they’re searching for the Biblical Tree of Life, Nor that most of the others are fashionably lethal mercenaries. It's that the mission is  backed by SinaCorp, the corporation responsible for a similar, failed expedition on which her mother died eleven years ago. However, when Chris’s father is unexpectedly diagnosed with inoperable cancer, Chris sees only one solution.

DK Mok of Riverwood, Australia

DK Mok is a fantasy and science fiction author whose novels include Squid’s Grief, Hunt for Valamon and The Other Tree. DK has been shortlisted for three Aurealis Awards, a Ditmar, and a Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award. DK graduated from UNSW with a degree in Psychology, pursuing her interests in both social justice and scientist humour. DK lives in Sydney, Australia, and her favourite fossil deposit is the Burgess Shale.