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The Deacon's Tale

Sword of the Stars
by Arinn Dembo
The Deacon's Tale (Sword of the Stars) by Arinn Dembo
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The Deacon's Tale is the story of Cai Rui, Task Force Commander of the infamous "Black Section" of the Sol Force Intelligence Corps and a loyal Archdeacon of the Roman Catholic Church. Charged to investigate a brutal massacre of Catholic converts on a distant alien world, Cai Rui finds himself on the trail of a killer who can threaten not only his life, but his very soul. As a brutal new race emerges from the shadows, one man will be tested to the extremes of courage and faith by an enemy who dares to call himself... "The Deacon".

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Release date: 2011

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Arinn Dembo

Arinn Dembo has been a professional writer since 1991. Her articles, criticism and reviews of all popular media have appeared in a variety of print and web publications, and her short fiction and poetry have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, and several anthologies.

Since 1996 she has worked as a developer in the computer gaming industry, and her background fiction has enriched a number of popular games for the PC, including Homeworld, Homeworld: Cataclysm, Ground Control, and Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.

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Since 2005 she has been the Lead Writer of Kerberos Productions, an independent game development studio in Vancouver, British Columbia. In that capacity she has continued to write fiction and create new worlds for games, including the apocalyptic milieu of the horror role-playing game Fort Zombie and the science fiction backdrop of the Sword of the Stars franchise.

She holds degrees in both Anthropology and Classical Archaeology, and lives in Vancouver with her family and a menagerie of pets.

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