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Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor
B.A., The Evergreen State College, 1986
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Biographical Note
Mark Taylor attended the Evergreen State College, and approximately eight other institutions of higher learning. The records are there somewhere but after a while he lost track. He has continued to do things that interest him, which has always included writing books. Assassin Rabbit from the Dawn of Time is his favorite, so far, though he is working on another which will probably be better.
Publication Type
Fiction
Latest Publication Title
Assassin Rabbit from the Dawn of Time
Publication Excerpt
Kaitlin has stolen Orin's laptop hoping to hold it ransom for the money he owes her. She knows the laptop is his life's work and she wants the money so she can move back home to Chewelah. She doesn't know the laptop is the operating console for a powerful computer virus rapidly taking over the world, a virus she released by removing the laptop from Orin's protected office.
Orin offered Alan and Astrid cash up front and a sizable payout for getting it back. They took the job. They weren't doing anything else. Alan and Astrid discover they have been treated with an unknown substance by Uli, a friend they visited for a lead on their case, who has been subsidizing his doctoral research by manufacturing designer drugs. His legitimate thesis work is in treating certain neural pathologies by inducing regeneration of damaged brain tissue. The experiment was successful but had some fairly radical side effects. The medicine didn't fail in any way, but the primary treatment resulted in unforeseen changes to the subject's relationship with the world—with the cosmos, in fact. In fairness, Uli's reprehensible decision to dose them without informed consent was largely due to the fact he'd been testing it on himself. He might have OD'd.
Alan didn't mean to share the suspect drug with Tony and Kaitlin. He knew Tony liked pot, he had pot so he shared what he had. Soon Alan, Astrid, Tony and Kaitlin are meeting people from all over. People who have lived virtually from the dawn of time itself. One might be tempted to call them gods but they don't think of themselves that way, despite the fact they're likely responsible for most of history's religions.
The crime syndicate comes to collect the laptop and are upset when Orin doesn't have it. The circus comes to town looking for Uli and the source of his powerful medicine.
Alan and Astrid have urgent questions but their new friends don't seem to know the answers, or just don't care. They have a hard time paying attention.
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