Auteur/autrice : Cyril Pasteau
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Amortals
Category: Novel Number of pages: 416 Language: English Author(s): Matt Forbeck Publisher: Angry Robot Year of publication: 2010 (this edition 2011) ISBN: 978-0-85766-002-2 In a not so distant future, very rich people and irreplaceable employees regularly save their memories in a computer. When they die, they wake up in a new and young cloned body.…
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World of Bots
One pitch a day: in August of 2011, I dedicate twenty minutes each day to writing an « elevator pitch » for a story or a game. In a distant planet, semi-autonomous robots, or « bots« , engage in free-for-all colonization. They mine, transform, build, trade, loot, search and destroy. This is the setting for an online game where…
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Once upon a crime
One pitch a day: in August of 2011, I dedicate twenty minutes each day to writing an « elevator pitch » for a story or a game. In the future, there are no more prisons. The criminally insane exist only as pure minds. The nickname of their virtual home is Hell, but it is a pleasant hell,…
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La naissance d’un tourbillon
En relisant le premier tome de l’Histoire du XXe siècle de Bernstein et Milza, j’ai été vivement intéressé par le chapitre 5, qui traite des tensions internationales au début du siècle dernier et de la façon dont se mit en route la « machine infernale » que fut la Très Grande Guerre. Après la défaite de la…
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The gang
It all began at the beach. I was rumbling my head on a piece of cloth and I was a child again, summer holidays at the beach, you know the feeling. My head was deep into the cloth and it was green and there was light beyond. For a moment, I had forgotten I was…