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Arden Baker, Aurealis Award Winning Author
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- Review: Merchants of Doubt
Now, lets set another scene. You’re a tobacco company executive. Your company makes hundreds of millions of dollars each year, you’ve got a private estate in Connecticut, you play a leisurely eighteen holes with the governor every weekend and your congressmen takes your calls any time, day or night. There’s only one cloud on your clear horizon, and it’s that blasted scientist and his research that you wish you’d never commissioned in the first place. - FlashMob: Counting Down The NightsThe wanderer plants his staff on the stone that marks the edge of his village, fields of barley behind and open grasslands ahead. He glances back, but none have come to see him off. Just Aimar, Erramun and their spears, following behind at a safe distance. They are only there to make sure he leaves.
- FlashMob: Between the Hearth and the CageFlames gutter amongst the broken hulks, the bones of once-great warships groaning as they sink beneath the rolling swell. It’s early morning, Helios’s rays have yet to burn away the fog, and already the fury of battle seems distant, like a dream. Gulls caw and swoop overhead, picking at the bloody remains of friend and foe alike while I clutch at my shattered oar, teeth chattering and await Poseidon’s vengeance in the eerie silence.
- Review: House of the Rain King
At its heart, the House of the Rain King is a story about debts: debts paid, debts owed, and the power the debt-holders wield over people, families both born and found, and the faith of the entire valley. Every moment that the Rain King lingers the floodwaters rise, and they’ll keep rising until He receives his due. - FlashMob: Be Good To MamaDizzy’s clients are gathered in her private dining room and they’re getting rowdy: slamming back shots of single malt like its water, snorting the latest in bio-engineered psychotropics, cracking jokes and laughing too loud, their voices carrying the hysterical edge particular to men who secretly hate their colleagues, while coveting their jobs, their wives and their mistresses.