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February 11, 2020
Dear Santa
Have you ever watched this most excellent short movie ?
Here is the short story it inspired me.
It had started as a mad plan from Baal, his favorite, after an apprenticeship on Earth in a marketing agency. They would switch two letters and create a new identity. Hell had a bad reputation? Baal’s design would change it forever. They would keep his colors, the fiery red, as an emblem and change everything else. The location, the henchmen, everything.
And for a wonderful century, it worked. Santa enjoyed his new life as only one condemned for eternity could. And he did his best. Baal had requested to become the lead deer and seemed happy. The devils continued to help him and the damned became small elfs, crafting gifts under his orders. They labored without a break, sweating day after day.
Until a dark night of full moon in November when a little girl broke the spell and wrote to him, his real him, Satan. Some says, hell is paved with good intentions…
February 9, 2020
Medecine for space operations
Space will require us to heal from a distance. How are we preparing for this ??? Some answers to be found here !
February 7, 2020
Research on going: private sector in low orbit
How will the private sector transform the low orbit ? A commercial module on the ISS is both a good news and an unknown :-). I will be watching this closely as it relates to the ideas in Space Station Acheron
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/na...
February 5, 2020
Work in progress
This week I have received the edited version of Human Starpilot #3 : Space Station Acheron.
Now comes the final review of the book : grammar, typos, all remaining details. Plus cover and blurb.
One month to go before the book is live !
February 4, 2020
100 words for a story
A few weeks ago, the SciFi Round Table organized a competition : write a story with 100 words. Here is what I submitted :
The Professor bargained with the Devil. Prove Riemann hypothesis within a day for my soul. Otherwise, make me a rich man.
The Devil had hated mathematics for ages. He tricked many scientists just because he couldn’t stand science. But a bargain bound him. He worked like Hell, as only he could, travelled through Time and to other dimensions.
A day later, he had no solution. So he took the only decision he could.
He appeared in the Professor’s classroom and laid out his equations on the blackboard. Since then, any who knock at the door is transformed into a frog.
Nota : this is a rewriting of an old classics from the 60s I read long time ago The devil and Simon Flagg from Arthur Porges. He had the idea. I merely rewrote the story in 100 words. 
February 3, 2020
The start of the adventure
The start came with Human Starpilots. I wanted to write for years, decades. I began reading science fiction as a boy, with french versions of Galaxy and Fiction.
How would you fare landing in a strange land, facing new rules? I wanted a large galaxy with many cultures and planets all around. Thus, the Federation Universe was born.
The Human Federation
February 1, 2020
Welcome to my writing world
Soon to come : more news on the Human Federation and on other stories
What will you find here :
– research
– very short stories
– summary of my universes
