The Grinding House, a superb collection of stories from Aurealis Award winning author, Kaaron Warren. Subtle depictions of future worlds, of stark contemporary settings and alternate realities are some of the wonders of Warren's imagination. From science fiction to fantasy and eerie, soul-shaking horror. Warren's words will reverberate in all of us.

What is there to enjoy in this collection? A profound vision of a future, perhaps dismal without hope, horror that makes your spine feel pierced by hundreds of rings, a smattering of bodily fluids, a few feminist themes, a clear and penetrating vision, the clarity of which is unearthly. Clever, sometimes funny, morbid and at times racy. You'll find all of this in Kaaron Warren's work.

"Kaaron Warren's voice is clear, original and sharp as a surgeon's scalpel. Her characters, no matter how bizarre their evolution or environment, reach out to us as people, their struggles becoming our own, and her stories, although often unrelenting, are shot through with an optimism and affection for our frail, striving species.

Kaaron Warren's stories, filled with narrative energy, hum like power lines, and don't let you go until you've read the last word in the last sentence. Best of all, and so rare in the field, she writes science fiction for grown-ups." - Simon Brown

The Grinding House will be launched by Simon Brown at the Conflux cocktail party on Friday 22nd April at 7.30

Kaaron Warren's Awards and Nominations

• "The Blue Stream", Aurealis December 1994 Issue 14 (short listed Best Fantasy Short Story 1995, Aurealis Awards. Voted equal third best Aurealis short story in Reader's Poll);
• "Skin Holes" Strange Fruit, Penguin Anthology, editor Paul Collins, 1995 (short listed Best Horror Short Story 1995, Aurealis Awards, Honourable Mention Best Horror And Fantasy '95);
• "The Hanging People", Bloodsongs Magazine Issue 7 December 1995 (short listed Best Horror Short Story 1996, Aurealis Awards);
• "A Positive", Bloodsongs Magazine, Issue 10, 1997(winner, Best Horror Short Story 1998, Aurealis Awards);
• "The Glass Woman", Aurealismagazine issue 22 1997 (short listed, Best Horror Story 1998, Aurealis Awards);
• "The Left Behind", Orb magazine Issue 1(shortlisted, Best Fantasy Story 2000, Aurealis Awards); "
• "The Speaker of Heaven", Orb Magazine Issue 2(shortlisted, Best Fantasy Story 2001, Aurealis Awards); "
• "Birthday" Aurealisxpress flash fiction winner, April 2002);
• "Bone-Dog, AGOG!2 Terrific Tales, Editor Cat Sparks, Publisher AGOG Press (Ellen Datlow's 2003 Recommended Reading List);
• "State of Oblivion", CSFG "Elswhere" anthology, Publisher CSFG Publishing, Editor Michael Barry 2003. (Shortlisted, Best SF story 2003, Aurealis Awards, Ellen Datlow's 2003 Recommended Reading List);

Email Kaaron at kaaronwarren@hotmail.com