The fate of the Queen of old…
It was the time when men erected a circle of stones that would defy the ages. A place we call Stonehenge. She was a Queen in Windsor, and she died,...
Books in a Virtual World
Today I decided to make an experiment : selling books in Second Life. Some people already did, but I couldn’t find anything looking successful enough, so I tried to imagine...
In Her Eyes
A friend of mine asked me for a picture and a story for her blog. She is Brasilian, and I met her in Second Life, where her name is Sunset...
May 2023 : First Dutch colony on Mars
It was a nice May Day. The ship was in time. The trip had been quite uneventful, except the daily routine of physical exercise, science experiments, and of course the...
How future cities might look like
Vertical Urban Scrawl by ~JakeMurray on deviantART Sometimes it’s easier to imagine social interactions in a future (or parallel) society than describe the architectural settings our characters are living in....
If Fallen Angels Could Fly : the trailer
This is not a vampire story… Merlin Corey’s novel “If Fallen Angels Could Fly”, first of the Dark Side of Heaven series. Magic, Angels and rock’n’roll… You can read the...
Your Asteroid Insurance Policy Has Expired
I can’t count the number of stories I’ve read (or seen in movies) about Near Earth Asteroids. Even though I was kind of fond of the Bruce Willis / Liv...
A Dalek Killed Him
I’ve always been fascinated by people who take so much time, effort and creativity to build models and places to look exactly like in movies or books. I used to...
Fantasy vehicles : reinventing snowmobiles
It might seem easy to imagine a Steampunk Zeppelin. But reality has other vehicles which can be used in fantasy worlds, uchronias and other alternate histories. When I looked at...
Cities, rooms, landscapes, surroundings and other settings…
As writers, we don’t have the time, the money, or both, to travel everywhere we’d like to just to feel an atmosphere or to discribe better a city or a...
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