Author’s Bio

Stuart Malin, author of epic adventure series The Ossayu of Ahmenar Ishtam, is a 
multi-talented man.  As a senior in high school, he was a semi-finalist in the 1976 
Westinghouse Science Talent Search for an entry titled The Designed of a Programmable Data 
Processor.  Malin went on to study physics, philosophy, engineering science, and computer 
systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, where he attained both 
BS and MSEE degrees.

Malin has programmed computers for many generations (of computers, not people), and works 
currently in Perl and REALbasic.  He is an avid Mac enthusiast, and credits the power of a 
lap-top that runs Adobe InDesign while serving web pages using an Apache mod_perl-enabled Web 
server as his salvation in his endeavor to meet the demands of those who asked him to bring
the story of Ahmenar to the rest of us.

Malin spent several profound years at the much lauded “strategic design planning” management 
consultancy Doblin Group, of Chicago, IL.  With the brilliant Doblin team, Malin advised 
Fortune 100 clients, conceiving for them impeccable alternative product/service futures.

Surging, the immense Internet wave climbed out of the quiet academic world, and bore down 
merciless and uncaring on Malin.  Smiling in delight, he steered for its sweet spot, starting 
an Internet technology development company.  He was lifted like a child’s toy to its crest.  
Unlike Ahmenar, he smashed headlong into the concrete column that lay ahead of him.

In December of 2002 Malin was exposed to a glimpse of something vast – another world – and 
became aware of myriad details of this world: its people and places, its sciences and history, 
and its political conundrums.  It was an overwhelming amount of information, and Malin had 
great difficulty assimilating it, for it was quite disjointed.  He set about to make sense of 
this and compiled an encyclopedia, a biographical dictionary, and an atlas.  In June of 2003, 
an otherworldly gentleman by the name of Hege Inuoue (pronounced hedge in-nyew-way) visited 
him, repeatedly requesting that Malin undertake a grand effort to tell an epic tale of Atria.  
Ultimately consenting, Malin was introduced to the words of K’me K’ea (pronounced kim-uh kay-uh),
the High Priestess of Atria, and made aware of a small and seemingly insignificant character in
Atria, a young man named Ahmenar.

Malin set out to record the story of Ahmenar’s travels in Atria as related by K’me K’ea. 
Malin writes with passion and of a love for the characters he has met (and continues to meet). 
Though the story is of K’me K’ea’s telling, Malin is quite intentional in the presentation of 
the story, a Campbell-style mythic hero’s journey.  Ossayu is a thrilling adventure, and Malin 
hopes it will be enough of a blockbuster success so that he can remain committed to the 
remaining volumes.  

Additional information can be found at http://www.ossayu.com

Contact:
Stuart Malin
Rhombus Communications
P.O. Box 1676
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
707-591-0804
rhombus@ossayu.com