24th Apr 2013

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...

17th Apr 2013
May 2023 : First Dutch colony on Mars

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...

16th Apr 2013
How future cities might look like

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....

13th Apr 2013

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...

11th Apr 2013
A Dalek Killed Him

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...

09th Apr 2013
Fantasy vehicles : reinventing snowmobiles

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...

08th Apr 2013
Cities, rooms, landscapes, surroundings and other settings…

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...

04th Apr 2013
Scary Skulls’ Stories

Scary Skulls’ Stories

Did it ever happen to you to imagine a whole story just by looking at a picture ? Yesterday found out an interesting story about strange human remains. While reading...

02nd Apr 2013
Save The Species

Save The Species

Let’s say that in a very close future we have the way to give birth to any creature as long as we have its DNA. Instead of just protecting endangered...

30th Mar 2013
The Mind Network

The Mind Network

What will become of children who started using computers and tablets since they’re toddlers ? Some already wonder. Reading this piece on Wired, I imagined that maybe in a few...

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